Pencil Fish

Several of the individual species have a distribution nearly as vast. 

Nannostomus is a class of fish having a place with the Lebiasinidae tribe of Characins. Every last trace of the species in this variety are regarded as Pencil Fish or Pencilfish. All but one species, Nannostomus espei, hold one to five flat dark or tan stripes with gold or silver glow showing up dorsal to the essential stripe.