Melanotaeniidae

Fricke, Ronald, Allen, Gerald R., Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Hamel, Mélanie A., Laboute, Pierre, Mana, Ralph, Hui, Tan Heok & Uyeno, Daisuke, 2014, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records, Zootaxa 3832 (1), pp. 1-247 : 38

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scientific name	Melanotaeniidae
status

Treatment

Melanotaeniidae

Melanotaenia affinis (Weber, 1907) —North New Guinea rainbowfish

STATUS AT MADANG. First record from Madang by Parenti & Allen (1991: 317). WAM material. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT. Endemic to New Guinea, 0– 4 m. Freshwater (rarely transitional water).

References

Parenti, L. R. & Allen, G. R. (1991) Fishes of the Gogol River and other coastal habitats, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 1, 307 - 320.

Abbreviations

WAM	Western Australian Museum

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Atheriniformes
Family	Melanotaeniidae
Genus	Melanotaenia

Specimens