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Scopaeocharax

Scopaeocharax is a genus with 2 species in this atlas, catalogued in the Tetras section, recorded from Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Adult sizes run from 1 in to 1 in. Every species below links to a full researched profile.

Species in atlas
2
Adult sizes
1 in
IUCN assessed
2 of 2
Recorded from
3 countries

About the genus

Scopaeocharax is a genus of miniature tetras in family Characidae, found in the upper Amazon drainages of Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador. The atlas covers 2 species, and they rank among the smallest characins on record - both top out under 1 in, with the smallest reaching only about 1 in. That diminutive size, paired with a slender, compressed body, is the genus's defining trait; fish this small typically live in shallow forest-stream margins and leaf litter rather than open water.

This is not a genus the aquarium trade markets by name - it is essentially unknown outside specialist collections and ichthyological survey work, and the local common name recorded for S. rhinodus (mojarita, a generic Spanish word for small fish) underlines how little dedicated attention these species have received. Both atlas species carry a Least Concern IUCN assessment, so there is no acute conservation flag here, though as with many small-range Amazonian headwater fish, that status rests on a thinner body of survey data than a comparable temperate species would have.

IUCN Red List: Least Concern · 2

The 2 species

Every Scopaeocharax recorded in this atlas. Each card links to a full researched profile — distribution, water parameters, and aquarium care, cited to primary sources.

(Böhlke, 1958)

1 in SL · LC

(Böhlke, 1958)

mojarita

1 in SL · LC

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How to cite

Aquarist Atlas (2026). Genus Scopaeocharax. Aquarist Atlas. https://www.aquaristatlas.com/scopaeocharax/

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