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Taxon profile

family

rainbowfishes
Melanotaeniidae Th.N. Gill, 1894

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes »  order Atheriniformes

Included taxa

Number of records: 8

genus Cairnsichthys Allen, 1980
genus Chilatherina Regan, 1914
genus Glossolepis Weber, 1907
genus Iriatherina Meinken, 1974
genus Melanotaenia Gill, 1862
genus Pelangia Allen, 1998
genus Popondichthys Allen, 1987
genus Rhadinocentrus Regan, 1914

Links and literature

CZ AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [family/274]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2001-2025): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Melanotaeniidae]
Data retrieved on: 17 January 2010
CZ Hanel L., Novák J. (2009): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces). 6. Paprskoploutví (Actinopterygii), kostnatí (Neopterygii) - cipalové (Mugiliformes), hrdložábří (Synbranchiformes), Národní muzeum (zoologické oddělení), Praha, 94 str. [as Melanotaeniidae]
Data retrieved on: 17 November 2013
EN Sheiko B.A. (2013): On family-group names of extant fishes and fish-like vertebrates of the world, Explorations of the fauna of the seas. St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute RAS. Vol. 74 (82). P. 1–204. [as Melanotaeniidae Th.N. Gill, 1894]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2019

Data source info

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase
[Data retrieved on: 14 May 2007]

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