From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genus of fishes
Chilatherina is a genus of
rainbowfishes that is
endemic to freshwater in
New Guinea .
There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:
[1]
[2]
Chilatherina alleni
Price , 1997
Chilatherina axelrodi
G. R. Allen , 1979 (Axelrod's rainbowfish)
Chilatherina bleheri
G. R. Allen , 1985 (Bleher's rainbowfish)
Chilatherina bulolo (
Whitley , 1938) (Bulolo rainbowfish)
Chilatherina campsi (
Whitley , 1957) (Highlands rainbowfish)
Chilatherina crassispinosa (
M. C. W. Weber , 1913) (Silver rainbowfish)
Chilatherina fasciata (
M. C. W. Weber , 1913) (Barred rainbowfish)
Chilatherina lorentzii (
M. C. W. Weber , 1907) (Lorentz's rainbowfish)
Chilatherina pagwiensis
G. R. Allen &
Unmack , 2012
[2]
Chilatherina pricei
G. R. Allen &
Renyaan , 1996 (Price's rainbowfish)
[3]
Chilatherina sentaniensis (
M. C. W. Weber , 1907) (Sentani rainbowfish)
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012).
Species of Chilatherina in
FishBase . June 2012 version.
^
a
b Allen, G.R. & Unmack, P.J. (2012): A new species of Rainbowfish (Chilatherina : Melanotaeniidae), from the Sepik River System of Papua New Guinea. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 18 (4): 227-237.
^
Chilatherina