Melanotaeniidae Gill 1894

Laan, Richard Van Der, Eschmeyer, William N. & Fricke, Ronald, 2014, Family-group names of Recent fishes, Zootaxa 3882 (2), pp. 1-230 : 72

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scientific name	Melanotaeniidae Gill 1894
status

Treatment

Family Melanotaeniidae Gill 1894 View in CoL View at ENA

Name in prevailing usage

Zanteclidae Castelnau 1873:88 [ref. 758] (family) Zantecla [never used as valid after 1899, Article 23.9.1.1]

Neoatherinidae Castelnau 1875:32 [ref. 768] (family) Neoatherina [never used as valid after 1899, Article 23.9.1.1]

Melanotaeniinae Gill 1894a:708 [ref. 1738] (subfamily) Melanotaenia View in CoL [family name sometimes seen as Melanotaenidae; Melanotaeniidae View in CoL used as valid by: Jordan 1923 [ref. 2421], Duncker & Mohr 1926 [ref. 15585], McAllister 1968 [ref. 26854], Lindberg 1971 [ref. 27211], Nelson 1976 [ref. 32838], Shiino 1976, Allen 1978 [ref. 8855], Allen & Kailola 1979 [ref. 8854], Allen 1980 [ref. 99], Allen & Cross 1980 [ref. 8761], Allen & Moore 1981 [ref. 8633], Allen & Ivantsoff 1982 [ref. 8519], Allen & Sarti 1983 [ref. 5354], Nelson 1984 [ref. 13596], Derijst 1989 [ref. 12460], Paxton View in CoL et al. 1989 [ref. 12442], Sterba 1990, Crowley & Ivantsoff 1991 [ref. 19166], Aarn & Ivantsoff 1996 [ref. 22302], Allen & Renyaan 1996 [ref. 22190], Price 1997 [ref. 23466], Eschmeyer 1998 View in CoL [ref. 23416], McGuigan 2001 [ref. 25582], Allen, Midgley & Allen 2002 [ref. 25930], Page, Sharma & Hughes 2004 [ref. 27702], Hoese et al. 2006, Nelson 2006 [ref. 32486], Allen & Unmack 2008 [ref. 29477], Allen & Hadiaty 2013 [ref. 32792], Martin & Barclay 2013 [ref. 32819]; so the family-group name Melanotaeniinae Gill 1894 is valid according to Article 23.9.1]

Rhombatractidae Ogilby 1896:119 [ref. 32616] (family) Rhombatractus [name dismissed op page 131–133, not available]

Iriatherininae Aarn & Ivantsoff 1997:144 [ref. 23322] (subfamily) Iriatherina View in CoL

References

Aarn & Ivantsoff, W. (1997) Descriptive anatomy of Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides and Iriatherina werneri (Teleostei: Atheriniformes), and a phylogenetic analysis of Melanotaeniidae. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 8 (2), 107 - 150. [October, ref. 23322]

Allen, G. R. (1978) The rainbowfishes of northwestern Australia (family Melanotaeniidae). Tropical Fish Hobbyist, 26 (10), 91 - 102. [June, ref. 8855]

Allen, G. R. & Kailola, P. J. (1979) Glossolepis wanamensis, a new species of freshwater rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae) from New Guinea. Revue francaise d'Aquariologie Herpetologie, 6 (2), 39 - 44. [20 July, ref. 8854]

Allen, G. R. & Cross, N. J. (1980) Descriptions of five new rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from New Guinea. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 8 (3), 377 - 396. [30 June, ref. 8761]

Allen, G. R. & Moore, R. (1981) Pseudomugil paludicola, a new species of freshwater blue-eye (Melanotaeniidae) from Papua New Guinea. Revue francaise d'Aquariologie Herpetologie, 7 (4) (for 1980), 105 - 108. [1 March, ref. 8633]

Allen, G. R. & Ivantsoff, W. (1982) Pseudomugil mellis, le honey blue-eye, une nouvelle espece de poisson arc-en-ciel (Melanotaeniidae) d'Australie orientale. Revue francaise d'Aquariologie Herpetologie, 9 (3), 83 - 86. [27 December, ref. 8519]

Allen, G. R. & Sarti, N. (1983)] Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis, une nouvelle espece de blue-eye (Melanotaeniidae) d'Australie nord-occidentale. Revue francaise d'Aquariologie Herpetologie, 10 (2), 47 - 50. [1 September, ref. 5354

Allen, G. R. & Renyaan, S. J. (1996) Three new species of rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from the Triton Lakes, Irian Jaya, New Guinea. aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology, 2 (2), 13 - 24. [June, ref. 22190]

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Allen, G. R. & Hadiaty, R. K. (2013) Melanotaenia sneideri, a new species of rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae), from West Papua Province, Indonesia. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 19 (3), 137 - 146. [19 July, ref. 32792]

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Castelnau, F. L. (1875) Researches on the fishes of Australia No. 2. In: Philadelphia Centennial Expedition of 1876, Intercolonial Exhibition Essays, 1875 - 6, pp. 1 - 52. [ref. 768]

Crowley, L. E. L. M. & Ivantsoff, W. (1991) Genetic similarity among populations of rainbowfishes (Pisces, Melanotaeniidae) from Atherton Tableland, northern Queensland. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 2 (2), 129 - 137. [July, ref. 19166]

Derijst, E. (1989) Annotations to the original descriptions dates and bibliographical references of the genera Melanotaenia and Pseudomugil Kner, with comment to the validity of the family-group names Pseudomugilidae, Zanteclidae, Neoatherinidae and Melanotaeniidae. Rainbowfish Magazine, 66 - 70. [4 January, ref. 12460]

Duncker, G. & Mohr, E. (1926) Die Fische der Sudsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908 - 09. 2. Teil (Belonidae, Hemirhamphidae, Exocoetidae, Polynemidae, Sphyraenidae, Mugilidae, Atherinidae, Melanotaeniidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg, 42, 126 - 136. [ref. 15585]

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Gill, T. N. (1894 a) An Australasian sub-family of fresh-water atherinoid fishes. American Naturalist, 28 (332), 708 - 709. [August, ref. 1738]

Aarn [no initial] & Ivantsoff, W. (1996) Descriptive anatomy of Rhadinocentrus ornatus (Osteichthyes, Melanotaeniidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 7 (1), 41 - 58. [ref. 22302]

Lindberg, G. U. (1971) Opredelitel' i kharakteristika semeystv ryb mirovoy fauny [Families of the fishes of the world: a check list and a key]. Nauka, Leningrad, 472 pp. [in Russian. English translation by Hardin, H. (1973), Fishes of the world: a key to families and a checklist, Israel Program for Scientific Translations, distributed by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 545 pp.] [2 August, ref. 27211]

Martin, K. C. & Barclay, S. (2013) New distribution records for the Cairns rainbowfish Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides (Melanotaeniidae), implications for conservation of a restricted northern population. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 19 (3), 155 - 164. [ref. 32819]

McAllister, D. E. (1968) The evolution of branchiostegals and associated opercular, gular, and hyoid bones and the classification of teleostome fishes, living and fossil (Biological Series No. 77). Bulletin National Museum of Canada, 221, 1 - 239. [ref. 26854]

McGuigan, K. L. (2001) An addition to the rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae) fauna of north Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 46 (2), 647 - 655. [10 May, ref. 25582]

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Page, T. J., Sharma, S. & Hughes, J. M. (2004) Deep phylogenetic structure has conservation implications for ornate rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae, Rhadinocentrus ornatus) in Queensland, eastern Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research, 55 (2), 165 - 172. [ref. 27702] http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1071 / mf 03139

Paxton, J. R., Hoese, D. F., Allen, G. R. & Hanley, J. E. (1989) Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 7. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, xii + 665 pp. [ref. 12442]

Price, D. S. (1997) Chilatherina alleni, a new species of rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae) from Irian Jaya. Revue francaise d'Aquariologie Herpetologie, 24 (3 / 4), 79 - 82. [19 December, ref. 23466]

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Atheriniformes
Family	Melanotaeniidae