🐟
Guppy
Poecilia reticulata
Fish · Least concern
vs
🐠
Siamese fighting fish
Betta splendens
Fish · Vulnerable
One clip names both of them
217 views between them.
Tale of the tape
Body length
0.03 m
🐟 Guppy · FishBase
0.07 m
🐠 Siamese fighting fish · FishBase
Maximum lifespan
5 yr
🐟 Guppy · AnAge
2 yr
🐠 Siamese fighting fish · AnAge
Bars are sized against the larger of the two figures.
Animals caught on camera
Real footage of the animals on this site — hunting, fighting, and getting on with it.
Shared ancestry
The closest group they share is Acanthomorphata (order), home to 21,217 species.
We know what their shared ancestor was, but not when it lived — no dated family tree spans both of them yet.