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| Coming to a shop near you: Danionella dracula |
| 31/01/2010 |
Aquarium Glaser based in Germany are one of the leading importers and wholesalers of rare species and are one of the major suppliers of fish to UK shops. Over the coming months we will be reporting on rare species that they have recently imported and may well be in stock at a shop near you. This week they have imported a rare member of the Danionin family,Danionella dracula. The information supplied by Aquarium Glaser is as follows:- Danionella are extremely small cyprinids, which never grow larger than 2 cm. The species that was discovered first - Danionella translucida - was thought to be the smallest cyprinid in the world, until the even smaller genus Paedocypris was discovered.
Currently, four species are recognized by science, three from Burma and one from northern India. It was only last year (2009) that a new species from Burma was described and given the unusual name Danionella dracula. Although no cyprinid has real teeth on the jaws it was found in males of the new Danionella that under the mikroskope small teeth-like extensions on the jaws became visible. The two foremost pairs of "teeth" are even fang-like, which reminded the describers on the fangs of the legendary vampire Count Dracula. Sadly these "teeth" are not visible in live specimens.
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