white cloud mountain fish

noun

variants or less commonly white cloud

: a very small Chinese freshwater fish (Tanichthys albonubes) that is brilliantly striped in gold and blue with the caudal fin red and tipped with white in the male and is often kept in the tropical aquarium

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