| Cairnsichthys | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Atheriniformes |
| Family: | Melanotaeniidae |
| Subfamily: | Melanotaeniinae |
| Genus: | Cairnsichthys Allen, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| Rhadinocentrus rhombosomoides Nichols & Raven, 1828 | |
Cairnsichthys is a genus of rainbowfishes from the subfamily Melanotaeniinae. The genus is endemic to freshwater streams in eastern Queensland in north eastern Australia. The genus was designated as a monotypic genus in 1928 by John T. Nichols and Henry C. Raven but in 2018 a second species was assigned to the genus.
Species
- Cairnsichthys bitaeniatus Allen, Hammer & Raadik, 2018 - Daintree rainbowfish
- Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides (Nichols & Raven, 1928) - Cairns rainbowfish
Etymology
The genus is named after the Australian city of Cairns with the suffix ichthys which is Greek for "fish".
References
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cairnsichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cairnsichthys". FishBase. February 2019 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cairnsichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- "Cairnsichthys". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- Hammer, M. P.; G. R. Allen; K. C. Martin; et al. (2018). "Revision of the Australian Wet Tropics endemic rainbowfish genus Cairnsichthys (Atheriniformes: Melanotaeniidae), with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4413 (2): 271–294. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4413.2.3. PMID 29690109.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (14 March 2019). "Order ATHERINIFORMES: Families BEDOTIIDAE, MELANOTAENIIDAE, PSEUDOMUGILIDAE, TELMATHERINIDAE, ISONIDAE, DENTATHERINIDAE and PHALLOSTETHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 July 2019.