GloFish Tetra and Similar Species
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi (modificado)
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Black Skirt Tetra
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi
Key differences: The wild-type Black Skirt Tetra lacks the fluorescent coloration. It typically has a silvery-grey body with two prominent vertical black bars behind the gill plate and a third fainter bar near the dorsal fin. Its fins are often dusky or black.
White Skirt Tetra
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi (albino/xanthic variant)
Key differences: A selectively bred variant of the Black Skirt Tetra that is pale white or yellowish, lacking the black pigmentation. It does not exhibit the engineered fluorescence of GloFish.
Other GloFish species
Various (e.g., Danio rerio, Poecilia reticulata, Hyphessobrycon eques)
Key differences: While other GloFish species share the fluorescent trait, they belong to different genera and species, and thus have distinct morphological characteristics (e.g., body shape, fin structure) that differentiate them from the GloFish Tetra.
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