Melanotaeniidae
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Melanotaeniidae é uma família de peixes de água doce. São peixes coloridos e de pequenas dimensões, que podem ser encontrados no Norte e Leste da Austrália e Nova Guiné e nas ilhas do Sudeste asiático.
Esta família derivao seu nome do género Melanotaenia, que em língua grega pode ser decomposto em Melano (= preto) e taenia (= bandeado), significando "de bandas pretas", uma alusão a bandas desta cor que percorrem o corpo dos peixes do género Melanotaenia.
São populares em aquariofilia. As populações selvagens destes peixes têm sido afectadas pela espécie Gambusia holbrooki, que é altamente agressiva.
Espécies
A familia Melanotaeniidae é composta por 67 espécies, dividivas entre 7 géneros: FishBase lists 71 species in seven genera:
- Genus Cairnsichthys
- Cairns rainbowfish, Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides (Nichols & Raven, 1928).
- Genus Chilatherina
- Chilatherina alleni Price, 1997.
- Axelrod's rainbowfish, Chilatherina axelrodi Allen, 1979.
- Bleher's rainbowfish, Chilatherina bleheri Allen, 1985.
- Bulolo rainbowfish, Chilatherina bulolo (Whitley, 1938).
- Highlands rainbowfish, Chilatherina campsi (Whitley, 1957).
- Silver rainbowfish, Chilatherina crassispinosa (Weber, 1913).
- Barred rainbowfish, Chilatherina fasciata (Weber, 1913).
- Lorentz's rainbowfish, Chilatherina lorentzii (Weber, 1907).
- Chilatherina pricei Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
- Sentani rainbowfish, Chilatherina sentaniensis (Weber, 1907).
- Genus Glossolepis
- Glossolepis dorityi Allen, 2001.
- Red rainbowfish, Glossolepis incisus Weber, 1907.
- Leggett's rainbowfish, Glossolepis leggetti Allen & Renyaan, 1998.
- Spotted rainbowfish, Glossolepis maculosus Allen, 1981.
- Sepik rainbowfish, Glossolepis multisquamata (Weber & de Beaufort, 1922).
- Tami River rainbowfish, Glossolepis pseudoincisus Allen & Cross, 1980.
- Ramu rainbowfish, Glossolepis ramuensis Allen, 1985.
- Lake Wanam rainbowfish, Glossolepis wanamensis Allen & Kailola, 1979.
- Genus Iriatherina
- Threadfin rainbowfish, Iriatherina werneri Meinken, 1974.
- Genus Melanotaenia
- New Guinea rainbowfish, Melanotaenia affinis (Weber, 1907).
- Ajamaru Lakes rainbowfish, Melanotaenia ajamaruensis Allen & Cross, 1980.
- Yakati rainbowfish, Melanotaenia angfa Allen, 1990.
- Arfak rainbowfish, Melanotaenia arfakensis Allen, 1990.
- Western rainbowfish, Melanotaenia australis (Castelnau, 1875).
- Batanta rainbowfish, Melanotaenia batanta Allen & Renyaan, 1998.
- Boeseman's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia boesemani Allen & Cross, 1980.
- Blue rainbowfish, Melanotaenia caerulea Allen, 1996.
- Waigeo rainbowfish, Melanotaenia catherinae (de Beaufort, 1910).
- Corona rainbowfish, Melanotaenia corona Allen, 1982.
- Duboulay's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia duboulayi (Castelnau, 1878).
- Lake Eacham rainbowfish, Melanotaenia eachamensis Allen & Cross, 1982.
- Exquisite rainbowfish, Melanotaenia exquisita Allen, 1978.
- Melanotaenia fluviatilis (Castelnau, 1878).
- Sorong rainbowfish, Melanotaenia fredericki (Fowler, 1939).
- Goldie River rainbowfish, Melanotaenia goldiei (Macleay, 1883).
- Slender rainbowfish, Melanotaenia gracilis Allen, 1978.
- Lake Tebera rainbowfish, Melanotaenia herbertaxelrodi Allen, 1981.
- Irian Jaya rainbowfish, Melanotaenia irianjaya Allen, 1985.
- Strickland rainbowfish, Melanotaenia iris Allen, 1987.
- Yapen rainbowfish, Melanotaenia japenensis Allen & Cross, 1980.
- Kamaka rainbowfish, Melanotaenia kamaka Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
- Lake Kutubu rainbowfish, Melanotaenia lacustris Munro, 1964.
- Lakamora rainbowfish, Melanotaenia lakamora Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
- Macculloch's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia maccullochi Ogilby, 1915.
- Mayland's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia maylandi Allen, 1983.
- Misool rainbowfish, Melanotaenia misoolensis Allen, 1982.
- Mountain rainbowfish, Melanotaenia monticola Allen, 1980.
- Mubi rainbowfish, Melanotaenia mubiensis Allen, 1996.
- Black-banded rainbowfish, Melanotaenia nigrans (Richardson, 1843).
- Ogilby's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia ogilbyi Weber, 1910.
- Oktedi rainbowfish, Melanotaenia oktediensis Allen & Cross, 1980.
- Papuan rainbowfish, Melanotaenia papuae Allen, 1981.
- Parkinson's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia parkinsoni Allen, 1980.
- Lake Kuromai rainbowfish, Melanotaenia parva Allen, 1990.
- Pierucci's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia pierucciae Allen & Renyaan, 1996.
- Pima River rainbowfish, Melanotaenia pimaensis Allen, 1981.
- Dwarf rainbowfish, Melanotaenia praecox (Weber & de Beaufort, 1922).
- Pygmy rainbowfish, Melanotaenia pygmaea Allen, 1978.
- Red-finned rainbowfish, Melanotaenia rubripinnis Allen & Renyaan, 1998.
- Fly River rainbowfish, Melanotaenia sexlineata (Munro, 1964).
- Checkered rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida inornata (Castelnau, 1875).
- Red-striped rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida rubrostriata (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886).
- Eastern rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida splendida (Peters, 1866).
- Desert rainbowfish, Melanotaenia splendida tatei (Zietz, 1896).
- Melanotaenia sylvatica Allen, 1997.
- Banded rainbowfish, Melanotaenia trifasciata (Rendahl, 1922).
- Melanotaenia utcheensis McGuigan, 2001.
- Van Heurn's rainbowfish, Melanotaenia vanheurni (Weber & de Beaufort, 1922).
- Genus Pelangia
- Pelangia mbutaensis Allen, 1998.
- Genus Rhadinocentrus
- Ornate rainbowfish, Rhadinocentrus ornatus Regan, 1914.
Ligações externas
- (em inglês) Home of the Rainbowfish
- (em inglês) Rainbowfish.info
- (em inglês) ANGFA