Eastern Rainbowfish

Taxobox
name = Eastern rainbowfish

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image_caption = Male eastern rainbowfish
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Atheriniformes
familia = Melanotaeniidae
genus = "Melanotaenia"
species = "M. splendida"
subspecies = "M. splendida splendida"
trinomial = "Melanotaenia splendida splendida"
trinomial_authority = Peters 1866
synonyms =

Eastern rainbowfish ("Melanotaenia splendida splendida") is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family endemic to AustraliaFishBase_species|genus=Melanotaenia|species=splendida splendida|year=2007|month=September] .

The Eastern rainbowfish can be found in river systems east of the Great Dividing Range of Queensland Australia from the Boyne River south of Gladstone to Cape York Peninsula. It is kept as a tropical aquarium fish.

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