Cairnsichthys

Cairnsichthys is a genus of rainbowfishes from the subfamily Melanotaeniinae. The genus is endemic to freshwater streams in eastern Queensland in north eastern Australia.[2] The genus was designated as a monotypic genus in 1928 by John T. Nichols and Henry C. Raven but in 2018 a second species was assigned to the genus.[3][4]

Cairnsichthys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Subfamily: Melanotaeniinae
Genus: Cairnsichthys
Allen, 1980
Type species
Rhadinocentrus rhombosomoides
Nichols & Raven, 1828[1]

Species
  • Cairnsichthys bitaeniatus Allen, Hammer & Raadik, 2018 - Daintree rainbowfish[5]
  • Cairnsichthys rhombosomoides (Nichols & Raven, 1928) - Cairns rainbowfish

Etymology

The genus is named after the Australian city of Cairns with the suffix ichthys which is Greek for "fish".[6]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Cairnsichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Cairnsichthys in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Cairnsichthys species". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  4. "Cairnsichthys". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
  5. Hammer, M. P.; G. R. Allen; K. C. Martin; et al. (2018). "Revision of the Australian Wet Tropics endemic rainbowfish genus Cairnsichthys (Atheriniformes: Melanotaeniidae), with description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4413 (2): 271–294.
  6. 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 6 July 2019.
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