Paracheirodon simulans – Green Neon Tetra | 水產百科網

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Hyphessobrycon simulans Géry, 1963

Paracheirodon: from the Ancient Greek παρά (pará), meaning ‘related to’, and the generic name Cheirodon.

simulans: from the Latin simulans, meaning ‘imitating, copying’.

Order: Characiformes Family: Characidae[1][2]

Known from the middle-to-upper rio Negro drainage, Brazil upstream of the mouth of its principal tributary the rio Branco, plus  the Río Orinoco system in the border region of Venezuela and Colombia, between San Fernando de Atabapo and the mouth of the Río Meta.

Type locality was originally given as ‘Rio Purus, Manaus, Brazil’ but this was later corrected to the rio Jufaris, an affluent of the rio Negro located just upstream of the latter’s confluence with the rio Branco in Amazonas state, Brazil.