The Sumatran barb is found in the waters of Sumatra and Kalimantan islands. On the territory of Europe this wonderful fish is known since 1935. Fans of the USSR recognized it around 1947. This representative of the underwater world belongs to the genus Puntius.
Danio rerio
The fish danio rerio belongs to the so-called model organisms of developmental biology. Due to the simplicity of maintenance, reproduction, high speed of embryo development it has become a kind of laboratory white mouse for ichthyology. It is one of the few living organisms that have visited space orbit.