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Pink corydoras
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Siluriformes
Family:	Callichthyidae
Genus:	Corydoras
Species:	C. axelrodi
Binomial name
Corydoras axelrodi Rössel, 1962

The pink corydoras (Corydoras axelrodi) is a tropical freshwater 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. A maximum body length of 4.2 cm has been reported. It was named in honor of pet-book publisher Herbert R. Axelrod (1927–2017), who helped collect type series and sent it to the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.

See also

• List of freshwater aquarium fish species

References

1. Villa-Navarro, F.; DoNascimiento, C.; Mojica, J.I.; Rodríguez-Olarte, D.; Taphorn, D.C.; Herrera-Collazos, E.E. (2021). "Corydoras axelrodi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Corydoras axelrodi". FishBase. December 2011 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CALLICHTHYIDAE, SCOLOPLACIDAE and ASTROBLEPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 February 2021.

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