Cairns rainbowfish

Cairns rainbowfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Cairnsichthys
Species: C. rhombosomoides
Binomial name
Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides
(Nichols & Raven, 1928)

The Cairns rainbowfish (Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides) is a species of rainbowfish endemic to Australia.

References

  • Wager, R. (1996). "Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 1996: e.T3461A9877712. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T3461A9877712.en. Retrieved 20 December 2017.

Further reading

  • Hammer, Michael P. ; Gerald R. Allen; Keith C. Martin; Mark Adams; Brendan C. Ebner; Tarmo A. Raadik; and Peter J. Unmack (2018). Revision of the Australian Wet Tropics Endemic Rainbowfish Genus Cairnsichthys (Atheriniformes: Melanotaeniidae), with Description of A New Species. Zootaxa. 4413(2); 271–294. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4413.2.3


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