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Melanotaenia
Genus Melanotaenia


Discovered by Heiko Bleher in 2017


M. maccullochi group




M. splendida group


Note that half a dozen former species in the genus are now synonymous with SPL, these are all marine fish.


M. trifasciata group











Heiko Bleher writes:
" This was another waterfall on Batanta Island we climbed up to it, it is below the giant waterfall shown previously. And this is the only place on earth where Melanotaenia batanta lives, no other place.It lives only in this small body of water. This is was paradise..."














Distribution: Birds Head Peninsula, Papua Barat Province, Indonesia Habitat: freshwater



New Guinea










Found in Deepwater Creek east of Rosedale, SE-Qld, is a rainbow, apparently a natural hybrid of Melanotaenia duboulayi & M. s. splendida. Both occur in streams of the wider region but have not been found in the same catchments, reports Gunther Schmida.


Natural hybrid between, Melanotania nigrans and M. exquisita


Refs:
Freshwater Fishes of Australia
Schmida

Rainbowfishes (Melanotaenia: Melanotaeniidae) of the Aru Islands, Indonesia with descriptions of five new species and redescription of M. patoti Weber and M. senckenbergianus Weber
Gerald R. Allen, Renny K. Hadiaty, Peter J. Unmack and Mark V. Erdmann
(pdf)






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