Paratherina wolterecki is a species of fish in the subfamily Telmatherininae, part of the rainbowfish family Melanotaeniidae. This species is endemic to Lakes Towuti and Mahalona on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.[1] It reaches up to 15 cm (5.9 in) in total length. Their environment is pelagic and they live in tropical climates. It has the characteristic of having a mouth pointed upward.[2] The specific name honours the hydrologist and biologist Richard Woltereck (1877-1944), who collected specimens of all four species in the genus Paratherina and who sketched them from life.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Atheriniformes |
| Family: | Melanotaeniidae |
| Genus: | Paratherina |
| Species: | P. wolterecki
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| Binomial name | |
| Paratherina wolterecki Aurich, 1935
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References edit
- ^ a b Lumbantobing, D. (2019). "Paratherina wolterecki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T16196A90979958. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T16196A90979958.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Paratherina wolterecki" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- ^ 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 11 July 2019.
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