🦋 Family

Melanotaeniidae

3 species · Animals

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Animalia › Chordata › › Atheriniformes › Melanotaeniidae

Melanotaenia duboulayi (Castelnau, 1878)

Melanotaenia duboulayi is a small fish with distinct size and colour differences between males and females.

Melanotaenia splendida (Peters, 1866)

Melanotaenia splendida, the Eastern rainbowfish, is an Australian rainbowfish species with three geographically separated subspecies.

Melanotaenia australis (Castelnau, 1875)

Melanotaenia australis, the western rainbowfish, is a common endemic freshwater rainbowfish of north-western Australia with geographically variable traits.

Related Families

Atherinopsidae 8 species Atherinidae 3 species Pseudomugilidae 1 species

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