Van Heurn's rainbowfish
Encyclopedia
van Heurn's rainbowfish (Melanotaenia vanheurni) is a species of fish
in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia
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Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
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Source
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Melanotaenia vanheurni. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.