Buried deep within the dense tropical rainforests that fill the Bird’s Head Peninsula of New Guinea swims a blue and gold treasure—the Boesemani Rainbowfish.

While freshwater fishes have a somewhat undeserved reputation for being less colorful than their saltwater counterparts, few would argue that the Electric Blue Acara is inferior to anything from the marine world.

The Barred Bichir can be found within a small section of Central Africa centered on the upper and middle portions of the Congo River basin.

Among the hugely diverse group of Southeast Asian fishes known as danios, few can compete with the sheer visual splendor of the miniscule members in the genus Sundadanio.