What kind of fish is a tetra?
What kind of fish is a tetra? Tetra is the common name of many small freshwater characiform fishes. Tetras come from Africa, Central America, and South America, belonging to the biological family Characidae and to its former subfamilies Alestidae (the "African tetras") and Lebiasinidae. What family fish belong to? For example, fish belong to the kingdom Animalia, the phylum Chordata, and from there are grouped more specifically into several classes, orders, families, and thousands of genus and species. Where do tetra fish come from? Tetras are found in the Americas and Africa, with the vast majority coming from the Amazon...