AUS M. australis group australis duboulayi eachamensis fluviatilis utcheensis CI 2017 Discovered by Heiko Bleher in 2017 MAC M. maccullochi group maccullochi sahulensis wilsoni NIG exquisita gracilis nigrans pygmaea SPL M. splendida group inornata rubrostriata splendida tatei Note that half a dozen former species in the genus are now synonymous with SPL, these are all marine fish. TRI M. trifasciata group trifasciata affinis Pagwi ajamaruensis albimarginata ammeri angfa arfakensis arguni aruensis batanta 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..." bleheri boesemani cf duboulayi Kangaroo Creek Lake Hyawatha eachamensis

ericrobertsi fluviatilis Macintyre Murrumbidgee goldiei herbertaxelrodi irianjaya lacustris laticlavia Distribution: Birds Head Peninsula, Papua Barat Province, Indonesia Habitat: freshwater papuae parkinsoni New Guinea parva Lake Kurumoi preacox sexlineata Tabubil sp Running River susii synergos wilsoni wokamensis cf x 1004 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. x exnig Natural hybrid between, Melanotania nigrans and M. exquisita