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Waigeo rainbowfish

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Species of fish

Waigeo rainbowfish
Conservation status

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Melanotaenia
Species: M. catherinae
Binomial name
Melanotaenia catherinae
(de Beaufort, 1910)
Synonyms

Rhombatractus catherinae de Beaufort, 1910

The Waigeo rainbowfish (Melanotaenia catherinae) is a species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Melanotaeniinae. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia. It reaches a maximum length of around 7.5 cm. This species was described as Rhombatractus catherinae in 1910 by Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort from a type locality which was given as a rivulet flowing into the Rabial River in Waigeo. de Beaufort gave this species the specific name catherinae to honour his wife, Catherine, who had assisted him on the expedition on which the type was collected.

References

  1. Allen, G.R.; Kadarusman (2020). "Melanotaenia catherinae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T13059A147682097. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T13059A147682097.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Melanotaenia catherinae year-2019". FishBase.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Rhombatractus catherinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  4. 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 2 July 2019.
  • Allen, G.R. (1991). Field guide to the freshwater fishes of New Guinea. Christensen Research Institute, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
  • Allen, G. R. and P. J. Unmack (2008). A new species of rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae: Melanotaenia), from Batanta Island, western New Guinea. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 13 (3-4): 109–120.
  • de Beaufort, L. F. (1910). Weitere Bestätigung einer zoogeographischen Prophezeiung. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 36 (12/13): 249–252.
  • Waigeo rainbowfish on Home of the Rainbowfish Archived 3 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine
Taxon identifiers
Melanotaenia catherinae


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