The pink corydoras (Corydoras axelrodi) is a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the subfamily Corydoradinae of the family Callichthyidae. It originates in inland waters in South America, and is found in the Meta River basin in Colombia. A maximum body length of 4.2 cm has been reported.[2] It was named in honor of pet-book publisher Herbert R. Axelrod (1927–2017), who helped collect type series and sent it to the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Callichthyidae |
| Genus: | Corydoras |
| Species: | C. axelrodi
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| Binomial name | |
| Corydoras axelrodi Rössel, 1962
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See also
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edit- ^ Villa-Navarro, F.; DoNascimiento, C.; Mojica, J.I.; Rodríguez-Olarte, D.; Taphorn, D.C.; Herrera-Collazos, E.E. (2021). "Corydoras axelrodi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021. Retrieved 16 December 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Corydoras axelrodi". FishBase. December 2011 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SILURIFORMES: Families CALLICHTHYIDAE, SCOLOPLACIDAE and ASTROBLEPIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 February 2021.