Looking for both Manufacturer ID and Species IDs on these Small Fish

[MudpupWaterdog]

Hi all,

I got these colorful translucent fish sometime in the 1990s. I remember grabbing them from a big bin labeled "Jelly Fish" though of course that's because they look rather like jelly/jello, not because they're supposed to represent sea jellies. Can anyone ID the manufacturer, or guess at some of the species depicted here?

Fish "E" on the bottom left looks loosely like some kind of breeding salmon to me, but it's missing an adipose fin.

They're each about 2.5 inches/6 cm long, and only stamped "CHINA" on the tail. Though I only have these six, I remember there being more figures available.

[stargatedalek]

I have a beta somewhere that I bet goes with these, yellow and red in colour. Got it second hand so no ideas for an ID here.

As for species ID's; E looks like a razorback sucker, and D might be a bowfin, though it could also be any number of thinner cichlid or freshwater killifish.

[NSD Bashe]

I don't know what they are and I'm not sure how much this helps but I think I just found a slew of them listed on eBay; not sure if it's the entire array but it's a hefty number of em...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/363762731002?hash=item54b1f2c7fa:g:JVQAAOSw3RNiLpFT

[Isidro]

I'm very unsure that they were modelled after real species. If so, they're extremely unrealistic. For example F could pass as a trout by general shape, but lacks pectoral and adipose fins and the anal fin shape is weird. D is could be probably intended after some kind of wrasse, certainly not a bowfin. C, that also lacks pectoral fins, could pass as a carp-like thing.

[stargatedalek]

I'm very unsure that they were modelled after real species. If so, they're extremely unrealistic. For example F could pass as a trout by general shape, but lacks pectoral and adipose fins and the anal fin shape is weird. D is could be probably intended after some kind of wrasse, certainly not a bowfin. C, that also lacks pectoral fins, could pass as a carp-like thing.

I think D looks plenty like a bowfin...



It also looks like a snakehead.

[Isidro]

It looks like much more a snakehead than a bowfin but I also don't think that is based on one. As I said, it's possible that is based in some sort of wrasse. But your theories about cichlid or killifish are good too.
The bowfin of your photo is a male, like my figurine of it

[sbell]

I've seen these in various forms. I think many were originally Azur or Prior. These tend to look just a little thicker, with some of the details and fins missing.

D is probably Crenichla or something similar, based on the pointed snout and dorsal shape (certainly not a bowfin).

B looks vaguely like the elastolin pike, but larger and more rounded, and E looks kind of like the Prior headstander, but simpler. By extension, A could be based on the Prior Scatophagus, and C on one of their cichlids.

F looks more like a smolt than an adult fish.

[AnimalToyForum]

They look like delicious candy.