Melanotaeniidae

Melanotaeniidae é uma família de peixes de água doce. São peixes coloridos e de pequenas dimensões, que podem ser encontrados no Norte e Leste da Austrália e Nova Guiné e nas ilhas do Sudeste asiático.

Melanotaeniidae

Classificação científica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Classe: Actinopterygii
Ordem: Atheriniformes
Subordem: Melanotaenioidei
Família: Melanotaeniidae
Géneros e espécies
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Iriatherina werneri
Glossolepis incisus
Melanotaenia lacustris

Esta família derivao seu nome do género Melanotaenia, que em língua grega pode ser decomposto em Melano (= preto) e taenia (= bandeado), significando "de bandas pretas", uma alusão a bandas desta cor que percorrem o corpo dos peixes do género Melanotaenia.

São populares em aquariofilia. As populações selvagens destes peixes têm sido afectadas pela espécie Gambusia holbrooki, que é altamente agressiva.

Espécies

A familia Melanotaeniidae é composta por 67 espécies, dividivas entre 7 géneros: FishBase lists 71 species in seven genera:

  • Genus Cairnsichthys
  • Genus Chilatherina
    • Chilatherina alleni Price, 1997.
    • Axelrod's rainbowfish, Chilatherina axelrodi Allen, 1979.
    • Bleher's rainbowfish, Chilatherina bleheri Allen, 1985.
    • Bulolo rainbowfish, Chilatherina bulolo (Whitley, 1938).
    • Highlands rainbowfish, Chilatherina campsi (Whitley, 1957).
    • Silver rainbowfish, Chilatherina crassispinosa (Weber, 1913).
    • Barred rainbowfish, Chilatherina fasciata (Weber, 1913).
    • Lorentz's rainbowfish, Chilatherina lorentzii (Weber, 1907).
    • Chilatherina pricei Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
    • Sentani rainbowfish, Chilatherina sentaniensis (Weber, 1907).
  • Genus Glossolepis
  • Genus Iriatherina
  • Genus Melanotaenia
    • New Guinea rainbowfish, Melanotaenia affinis (Weber, 1907).
    • Ajamaru Lakes rainbowfish, Melanotaenia ajamaruensis Allen & Cross, 1980.
    • Yakati rainbowfish, Melanotaenia angfa Allen, 1990.
    • Arfak rainbowfish, Melanotaenia arfakensis Allen, 1990.
    • Western rainbowfish, Melanotaenia australis (Castelnau, 1875).
    • Batanta rainbowfish, Melanotaenia batanta Allen & Renyaan, 1998.
    • Boeseman's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia boesemani Allen & Cross, 1980.
    • Blue rainbowfish, Melanotaenia caerulea Allen, 1996.
    • Waigeo rainbowfish, Melanotaenia catherinae (de Beaufort, 1910).
    • Corona rainbowfish, Melanotaenia corona Allen, 1982.
    • Duboulay's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia duboulayi (Castelnau, 1878).
    • Lake Eacham rainbowfish, Melanotaenia eachamensis Allen & Cross, 1982.
    • Exquisite rainbowfish, Melanotaenia exquisita Allen, 1978.
    • Melanotaenia fluviatilis (Castelnau, 1878).
    • Sorong rainbowfish, Melanotaenia fredericki (Fowler, 1939).
    • Goldie River rainbowfish, Melanotaenia goldiei (Macleay, 1883).
    • Slender rainbowfish, Melanotaenia gracilis Allen, 1978.
    • Lake Tebera rainbowfish, Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi Allen, 1981.
    • Irian Jaya rainbowfish, Melanotaenia irianjaya Allen, 1985.
    • Strickland rainbowfish, Melanotaenia iris Allen, 1987.
    • Yapen rainbowfish, Melanotaenia japenensis Allen & Cross, 1980.
    • Kamaka rainbowfish, Melanotaenia kamaka Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
    • Lake Kutubu rainbowfish, Melanotaenia lacustris Munro, 1964.
    • Lakamora rainbowfish, Melanotaenia lakamora Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
    • Macculloch's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia maccullochi Ogilby, 1915.
    • Mayland's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia maylandi Allen, 1983.
    • Misool rainbowfish, Melanotaenia misoolensis Allen, 1982.
    • Mountain rainbowfish, Melanotaenia monticola Allen, 1980.
    • Mubi rainbowfish, Melanotaenia mubiensis Allen, 1996.
    • Black-banded rainbowfish, Melanotaenia nigrans (Richardson, 1843).
    • Ogilby's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia ogilbyi Weber, 1910.
    • Oktedi rainbowfish, Melanotaenia oktediensis Allen & Cross, 1980.
    • Papuan rainbowfish, Melanotaenia papuae Allen, 1981.
    • Parkinson's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia parkinsoni Allen, 1980.
    • Lake Kuromai rainbowfish, Melanotaenia parva Allen, 1990.
    • Pierucci's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia pierucciae Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
    • Pima River rainbowfish, Melanotaenia pimaensis Allen, 1981.
    • Dwarf rainbowfish, Melanotaenia praecox (Weber & de Beaufort, 1922).
    • Pygmy rainbowfish, Melanotaenia pygmaea Allen, 1978.
    • Red-finned rainbowfish, Melanotaenia rubripinnis Allen & Renyaan, 1998.
    • Fly River rainbowfish, Melanotaenia sexlineata (Munro, 1964).
    • Checkered rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida inornata (Castelnau, 1875).
    • Red-striped rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida rubrostriata (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886).
    • Eastern rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida splendida (Peters, 1866).
    • Desert rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida tatei (Zietz, 1896).
    • Melanotaenia sylvatica Allen, 1997.
    • Banded rainbowfish, Melanotaenia trifasciata (Rendahl, 1922).
    • Melanotaenia utcheensis McGuigan, 2001.
    • Van Heurn's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia vanheurni (Weber & de Beaufort, 1922).
  • Genus Pelangia
    • Pelangia mbutaensis Allen, 1998.
  • Genus Rhadinocentrus
    • Ornate rainbowfish, Rhadinocentrus ornatus Regan, 1914.

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