Melanotaeniidae

Melanotaeniidae
Classificação científica
Reino: Animalia Filo: Chordata Classe: Actinopterygii Ordem: Atheriniformes Subordem: Melanotaenioidei Família: Melanotaeniidae
Géneros e espécies
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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.

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.

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

• Genus Cairnsichthys
  • Cairns rainbowfish, Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides (Nichols & Raven, 1928).
• 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
  • Glossolepis dorityi Allen, 2001.
  • Red rainbowfish, Glossolepis incisus Weber, 1907.
  • Leggett's rainbowfish, Glossolepis leggetti Allen & Renyaan, 1998.
  • Spotted rainbowfish, Glossolepis maculosus Allen, 1981.
  • Sepik rainbowfish, Glossolepis multisquamata (Weber & de Beaufort, 1922).
  • Tami River rainbowfish, Glossolepis pseudoincisus Allen & Cross, 1980.
  • Ramu rainbowfish, Glossolepis ramuensis Allen, 1985.
  • Lake Wanam rainbowfish, Glossolepis wanamensis Allen & Kailola, 1979.
• Genus Iriatherina
  • Threadfin rainbowfish, Iriatherina werneri Meinken, 1974.
• 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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