Telmatherina opudi is a species of fish in the subfamily Telmatherininae part of the family Melanotaeniidae, the rainbowfishes. It is endemic to Indonesia.[2] his species was described in 1991 by Maurice Kottelat from a type locality of Lake Matano.[3] Kottelat gave the species the specific name of opudi which is the local name for all the species of Telmatherina found in Lake Matano.[4]

Telmatherina opudi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Atheriniformes
Family: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Telmatherina
Species:
T. opudi
Binomial name
Telmatherina opudi
Kottelat, 1991

Sources edit

  1. ^ Lumbantobing, D. (2019). "Telmatherina opudi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T21577A90980142. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21577A90980142.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Telmatherina opudi" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Telmatherina opudi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  4. ^ 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 13 July 2019.