Telmatherina antoniae is a species of fish in the subfamily Telmatherininae part of the family Melanotaeniidae, the rainbowfishes. It is endemic to Indonesia where it occurs only in Lake Matano on Sulawesi.[2] The species was described in 1991 by Maurice Kottelat[3] and its specific name honours his wife, Antonia.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Atheriniformes |
| Family: | Melanotaeniidae |
| Genus: | Telmatherina |
| Species: | T. antoniae
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| Binomial name | |
| Telmatherina antoniae Kottelat, 1991
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Sources edit
- ^ Lumbantobing, D. (2019). "Telmatherina antoniae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T21575A90980028. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21575A90980028.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Telmatheria antoniae" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Telmatherina antoniae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ 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 12 July 2019.
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