The pink corydoras (''Corydoras axelrodi'') is a
tropical freshwater
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include ...
fish belonging to the subfamily Corydoradinae of the family
Callichthyidae. It originates in inland waters in
South America, and is found in the
Meta River basin in
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
. A maximum body length of 4.2 cm has been reported.
It was named in honor of pet-book publisher
Herbert R. Axelrod
Herbert Richard Axelrod (June 7, 1927 – May 15, 2017) was an American tropical fish expert, a publisher of pet books, and an entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.
Early life
Axelrod was born ...
(1927-2017), who helped collect type series and sent it to the
Senckenberg Museum in
Frankfurt, Germany.
See also
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List of freshwater aquarium fish species
A vast number of aquatic species have successfully adapted to live in the freshwater aquarium. This list gives some examples of the most common species found in home aquariums.
Catfish
Characins and other characiformes
...
References
Corydoras
Taxa named by Fritz Rössel
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Fish described in 1962
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