Rheocles derhami

Rheocles derhami is a species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Bedotiinae, the Madagascar rainbowfishes.[2] It is endemic to the Ambalona River and Mangarahar River in Madagascar. Its natural habitat is rivers.[1] It was described by Melanie Stiassny and Damaris Rodriguez in 1992[3] and was named in honour of the Swiss conservationist Patrick De Rham.[4]

Rheocles derhami
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Rheocles
Species:
R. derhami
Binomial name
Rheocles derhami
Stiassny & D. M. Rodríguez, 1992

References

  1. Sparks, J.S. (2016). "Rheocles derhami". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T44659A58309105. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T44659A58309105.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Rheocles derhami" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Rheocles derhami". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (14 March 2019). "Order ATHERINIFORMES: Families BEDOTIIDAE, MELANOTAENIIDAE, PSEUDOMUGILIDAE, TELMATHERINIDAE, ISONIDAE, DENTATHERINIDAE and PHALLOSTETHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 June 2019.


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