''Copella eigenmanni'' is a species of fish in the splashing tetra family found along the Atlantic coast between Pará to Delta Amacuro, the mouth of the

Orinoco The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...

. They grow no more than a few centimeters. The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist

Carl H. Eigenmann Carl Henry Eigenmann (March 9, 1863 – April 24, 1927) was a German-American ichthyologist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who, along with his wife Rosa Smith Eigenmann, and his zoology students is credited with identifyin ...

(1863-1927), who collected the type specimen.

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* Fish of Brazil Fish of Venezuela Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan Fish described in 1912 Lebiasinidae {{characiformes-stub