Van Heurn's rainbowfish
| Van Heurn's rainbowfish | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Atheriniformes |
| Family: | Melanotaeniidae |
| Genus: | Melanotaenia |
| Species: | M. vanheurni |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanotaenia vanheurni (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1922) | |
van Heurn's rainbowfish (Melanotaenia vanheurni) is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia.
Sources
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Melanotaenia vanheurni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Melanotaenia vanheurni" in FishBase. April 2006 version.
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