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Aquarium species with a confirmed native range

Species where a named checklist positively states the animal is native somewhere. This list is much shorter than it should be, and the reason is a property of the literature rather than of the animals.

What this page does not say

Absence from this page does not mean a species has no native range. It means no checklist AquariumHQ holds has coded one — and only five datasets in the entire harvest assert nativeness at all, against 137 that assert introduction.

83 species

Countries are as the source coded them. A species appears once, with every country any held checklist assigned to it under this status.

SpeciesCountriesRecorded in
Vampire shrimp13BR, CD, CM, GA, GH, LR, ML, MX, NG, SN, SR, ST, VE
Bronze corydoras11AR, BO, BR, CO, GF, GY, PE, PY, SR, TT, VE
Common hatchetfish9BO, BR, CO, EC, GF, GY, PE, SR, VE
Marbled hatchetfish7BR, CO, GF, GY, PE, SR, VE
Otocinclus7AR, BO, BR, CO, PE, PY, VE
Pristella tetra7BR, CO, GF, GY, SR, TT, VE
Angelfish6BR, CO, GF, GY, PE, SR
Banjo catfish6BO, BR, CO, GF, PE, VE
Dwarf pencilfish6BR, CO, GY, PE, SR, VE
Splash tetra6BR, GF, GY, SR, TT, VE
Three-lined pencilfish6BO, BR, CO, GY, PE, VE
Beckford's pencilfish5BR, GF, GY, SR, VE
Bloodfin tetra5AR, BO, BR, PY, UY
Brown pencilfish5BR, CO, GY, PE, VE
Emerald corydoras5BN, BR, CO, EC, PE
Penguin tetra5BO, BR, EC, PE, VE
Three-line corydoras5BR, CO, EC, PE, SR
Black skirt tetra4AR, BO, BR, CO
Candy stripe pleco4BO, BR, CO, VE
Festivum4BO, BR, PE, PY
Oscar4BR, CO, GF, PE
Pictus catfish4BR, CO, PE, VE
Redbreast acara4AR, BO, BR, PY
Agassiz's dwarf cichlid3BR, CO, PE
Bluefin notho3MZ, ZA, ZW
Cardinal tetra3BR, CO, VE
Checkerboard cichlid3BR, CO, VE
Cockatoo dwarf cichlid3BR, CO, PE
Discus3BR, CO, PE
Green neon tetra3BR, CO, VE
Neon tetra3BR, CO, PE
Peppered corydoras3AR, BR, UY
Severum3BR, CO, VE
Starlight bristlenose3BR, GY, VE
Umbrella cichlid3AR, BR, PY
Bolivian ram2BO, BR
Common pleco2BR, PE
Duck mussel2BE, SE
European river snail2BE, SE
Great pond snail2BE, SE
Great ramshorn snail2BE, SE
Mystery snail2BR, VE
Painter's mussel2BE, SE
Platy2MX, ZA
Quilted melania2VE, ZA
Sterba's corydoras2BO, BR
Swan mussel2BE, SE
Black neon tetra1BR
Bumblebee shrimp1CN
Butterfly splitfin1MX
Channelled apple snail1BR
Concolor corydoras1VE
Crystal red shrimp1CN
Diamond tetra1VE
Duplicate corydoras1BR
Ember tetra1BR
Firemouth cichlid1MX
Flag acara1BR
German blue ram1VE
Giant ramshorn snail1BR
Glowlight tetra1VE
Hongslo's dwarf cichlid1VE
Julii corydoras1BR
Keyhole cichlid1VE
Lemon tetra1BR
Macmaster's dwarf cichlid1VE
Molly1MX
Ninja shrimp1ID
Pygmy corydoras1BR
Red claw crab1TW
Redclaw crayfish1ZA
Redtail splitfin1MX
Rummy-nose tetra1VE
Sailfin molly1MX
Salt and pepper corydoras1VE
Spixi snail1BR
Spotted checkerboard cichlid1BR
Striped twig catfish1VE
Swordtail1MX
Twig catfish1VE
Variatus platy1MX
Violet corydoras1BR
Zebra pleco1BR

Where these statements come from

Every row above is a statement made by one of these checklists, retrieved through GBIF with the establishment means reproduced exactly as the source coded it.

  • Catálogo Taxonômico da Fauna do Brasil
  • Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas
  • Lista Roja de la Fauna Venezolana 2015
  • Listado taxonómico de peces y lampreas con distribución en México
  • South African National Species Checklist (Catalogue of Life in South Africa, COLSA)
  • The Swedish Red List 2020
  • Waarnemingen.be / observations.be - List of species observed in Belgium
  • World Register of Marine Species
  • 「全國水環境改善計畫」新竹市政府生態檢核暨相關工作計畫(112~113) | National Plan for Water Environments Improvement (2023-2024)

Where a checklist recorded presence without coding how the species got there, the record is held as unstated and does not appear on any of these pages. Filling that in would be the single most damaging thing AquariumHQ could do to this dataset.