Biology:Lake Kurumoi rainbowfish

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Lake Kurumoi rainbowfish
Melanotaenia parva male.jpg

Critically endangered, possibly extinct in the wild (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Melanotaenia
Species:
M. parva
Binomial name
Melanotaenia parva
G. R. Allen, 1990

The Lake Kurumoi rainbowfish (Melanotaenia parva) is a species of freshwater rainbowfish in the subfamily Melanotaeniinae. It was endemic to West Papua in Indonesia. Its natural habitat was only the small Lake Kurumoi in the Bird's Head Peninsula.[2] It is primarily threatened by habitat loss, however it is unknown if the wild population still exists as it has probably been extirpated from its entire native range.

Sources

  1. Allen, G.R.; Kadarusman (2020). "Melanotaenia parva". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T13072A147682671. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T13072A147682671.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13072/147682671. Retrieved 15 November 2021. 
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Melanotaenia parva" in FishBase. February 2019 version.

Wikidata ☰ Q142878 entry