Fly River rainbowfish

Fly River rainbowfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Melanotaenia
Species: M. sexlineata
Binomial name
Melanotaenia sexlineata
(Munro, 1964)

The Fly River rainbowfish (Melanotaenia sexlineata) is a species of freshwater fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is endemic to the Upper Fly River in Papua New Guinea.

Source

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, May 03, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.