Waigeo rainbowfish

Waigeo rainbowfish
Waigeo rainbowfish
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Melanotaenia
Species: M. catherinae
Binomial name
Melanotaenia catherinae
(de Beaufort, 1910)

The Waigeo rainbowfish (Melanotaenia catherinae) is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia.

References

  • 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.
  • Allen, G. 1996. Melanotaenia catherinae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.
  • Waigeo rainbowfish on Home of the Rainbowfish
  • Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Melanotaenia catherinae" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
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