Red-tailed Black Shark

Despite the name, this is not close relative to real sharks and bull sharks. There are carps. From the genus name: Epalzeorhynchos: Greek, epalzes, -es, -es = curative + Greek, rhyngkhos = snout. And in specific name from Greek: bi = double, kolor = color.

This carp where it is prized for its deep black body and vivid red or orange tail.

Didn't have to known this animal.

Red tail sharks tend to bully slow-moving, timid, long-finned, and small fish, like angelfish, fancy guppies, and bettas. Invertebrates and mollusks shouldn't be added to the tank or in their natural habitat because red tail sharks eat them because of that small but terrible apex predator. Quite often red-tailed sharks are sold as algae eaters and they are omnivorous.

These carps have a reputation for being aggressive and bullying other fish. Passive towards a larger one.

This fish is endemic to Thailand and is found in the Chao Phraya River as far south as Bangkok.

• Movement Pattern: Nomadic

• Individual Type: Solo

• Population Trend: Stable

• Population: ???

• Locomotion: Aquatic

• Habitat: Warm River; Cold River; Lukewarm River; Subterranean River; Warm Pond; Cold Pond.

• Earth: 

  • Extant (Resident): Thailand

• Berbania/Hirawhassa: 

  • Extant & Introduced (Resident): worldwide

• Reinachos/Ityosel: 

  • Extant & Introduced (Resident): worldwide

• Delphia/Thatrollwa: 

  • Extant & Introduced (Resident): worldwide

The carp can be tamed in a fish basket used for petting and put in your own artificial lake.

Coming soon

• Thai: ปลาหางแดง / Plā h̄āng dæng (Pla hang daeng)

• Mandarin: 双色角鱼 / Shuāngsè jiǎo yú

• Finnish: Tulipyrstö

• Czech: Parmička červenoocasá, Labeo dvoubarevné, Mřenka zlatoocasá, Labeo dvoubarevné

• Polish: Grubowarg dwubarwny

• German: Feuerschwanz, Feuerschwanz-Fransenlipper

• Danish: Rødhale, Rødhalet Hajbarbe

• Swedish: Eldstjärt

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_black_shark

• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q301058

• https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Epalzeorhynchos_bicolor

• https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id43000/

• https://www.gbif.org/species/2360397

• https://www.fishkeepingworld.com/red-tail-shark/

• https://www.itsafishthing.com/best-tank-mates-for-red-tailed-sharks/

• https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/7807/12852157

• https://www.fishbase.ca/summary/10835

• https://www.deviantart.com/ognimdo2002/art/Red-tailed-Black-Shark-910580178