Telmatherina antoniae

Telmatherina antoniae is a species of fish in the subfamily Telmatherininae part of the family Melanotaeniidae, the rainbowfishes. It is endemic to Indonesia where it occurs only in Lake Matano on Sulawesi.[2] The species was described in 1991 by Maurice Kottelat[3] and its specific name honours his wife, Antonia.[4]

Telmatherina antoniae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Telmatherina
Species:
T. antoniae
Binomial name
Telmatherina antoniae
Kottelat, 1991

Sources

  1. Lumbantobing, D. (2019). "Telmatherina antoniae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T21575A90980028. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21575A90980028.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Telmatheria antoniae" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Telmatherina antoniae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 July 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 12 July 2019.


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