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Pseudomugilidae
The Pseudomugilidae, the blue-eyes, are a family of atheriniform fish. They were formerly treated as a subfamily of the Melanotaeniidae. They inhabit fresh and brackish water in Australia, New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ... and nearby smaller islands. Blue-eyes are small fish, typically no more than in length. Like the larger melanotaeniid rainbowfish, they spawn all year round, and attach their eggs to vegetation. Genera There are three general in the Pseudomugilinae: * '' Kiunga'' G. R. Allen, 1983 * '' Pseudomugil'' Kner, 1866 * '' Scaturiginichthys'' Ivantsoff, Unmack, Saeed & Crowley, 1991 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q882360 Melanotaeniidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudomugil
''Pseudomugil'' is a genus of fish in the family Pseudomugilidae endemic to Australia and New Guinea, where they are found in freshwater rivers and streams and bodies of brackish water. Description Members of this genus have slender bodies and two dorsal fins. They are usually sexually dimorphic.Saeed, B., Ivantsoff, W. & Allen, G.R. (1989): Taxonomic Revision of the Family Pseudomugilidae (Order Atheriniformes). ''Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 40 (6): 719-787.'' The name of this genus is a combination of ''pseudo'' meaning "false" and ''mugil'' meaning "mullet", referring to the resemblance of the body shape of this genus to that of the unrelated mullets. Species There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: * '' Pseudomugil connieae'' ( G. R. Allen, 1981) (Popondetta blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis'' G. R. Allen & Sarti, 1983 (Neon blue-eye) * ''Pseudomugil furcatus The forktail blue-eye (''Pseudomugil furcatus'') is a diminuti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudomugilinae
The Pseudomugilidae, the blue-eyes, are a family of atheriniform fish. They were formerly treated as a subfamily of the Melanotaeniidae. They inhabit fresh and brackish water in Australia, New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ... and nearby smaller islands. Blue-eyes are small fish, typically no more than in length. Like the larger melanotaeniid rainbowfish, they spawn all year round, and attach their eggs to vegetation. Genera There are three general in the Pseudomugilinae: * '' Kiunga'' G. R. Allen, 1983 * '' Pseudomugil'' Kner, 1866 * '' Scaturiginichthys'' Ivantsoff, Unmack, Saeed & Crowley, 1991 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q882360 Melanotaeniidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atheriniformes
The Atheriniformes, also known as the silversides, are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the Old & New World silversides, the rainbowfishes, and several less-familiar families, including the unusual Phallostethidae. The order includes at least 354 species. They are found worldwide in tropical and temperate marine and freshwater environments. Description Atheriniformes are generally elongated and silvery in colour, although exceptions do exist. They are typically small fish, with the largest being the Argentinian silverside, with a head-body length of , but possibly up to 82 cm (32 in). The smallest species, such as the Bangkok minnow, reach only in adult length. Members of the order usually have two dorsal fins, the first with flexible spines, and an anal fin with one spine at the front. The lateral line is typically weak or absent. Atheriniform larvae share several characteristics; the gut is unusually short, a single row of melanophores occurs along the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiunga (fish)
''Kiunga'' is a genus of blue-eyes endemic to Papua New Guinea. The generic name refers to the port town of Kiunga in western Papua New Guinea, the type of the type species, ''Kiunga ballochi'' having been collected in the vicinity of this settlement. Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * '' Kiunga auromarginata'' G. R. Allen, Unmack, Hammer & Storey, 2024Allen, G.R., Unmack, P.J., Hammer, M.P. & Storey, A.W. (2024). "A remarkable radiation of five species in the genus ''Kiunga'' (Teleostei: Pseudomugilidae) from the Fly River system, Papua New Guinea with descriptions of three new species". ''Fishes of Sahul''. 38 (2): 2137-2157. * '' Kiunga ballochi'' G. R. Allen, 1983 (Glass blue-eye) * '' Kiunga bleheri'' G. R. Allen, 2004 * '' Kiunga filamentosa'' G. R. Allen, Unmack, Hammer & Storey, 2024 * '' Kiunga leucozona '' G. R. Allen, Unmack, Hammer & Storey A storey (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English) or st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melanotaeniinae
Rainbowfishes are small, colourful freshwater fishes belonging to the family Melanotaeniidae, found in northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea (including islands in Cenderawasih Bay and Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia), Sulawesi and Madagascar. The largest rainbowfish genus and the type of the family, ''Melanotaenia'', derives from the ancient Greek '' melano'' (black) and '' taenia'' (banded). Translated, it means "black-banded", and is a reference to the often striking lateral black bands that run along the bodies of those in the genus ''Melanotaenia''. Characteristics The Melanotaeniidae is characterised by having their distal premaxillary teeth enlarged. They have a compressed body with two dorsal fins separated by a small gap between them. There are 3–7 spines in the first dorsal fin while the second has 6–22 rays, with the first ray being a stout spine in some species, the anal fin has 10–30 rays and, again, the first may be a stout spine in some species. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scaturiginichthys
The red-finned blue-eye (''Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis'') is a tiny, critically endangered species of fish in the family Pseudomugilidae. It is the only species in its genus. The species was first recorded in 1990. It is Endemism, endemic to central Queensland in Australia, where it is restricted to freshwater spring, springs in Bush Heritage's Edgbaston Reserve. Description The fish reaches up to in length, and only males have red fins. Habitat and distribution The fish only live in shallow, slightly salty water in Edgbaston Reserve, which is owned by Bush Heritage Australia. The water in the springs can vary from near freezing in the winter to in the summer. Conservation status It is listed as ''Critically Endangered'' on the IUCN Red List, and as ''Endangered'' under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992. In September 2012, the species was placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature list of 100 most endangered species on the planet. It was origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Kner
Rudolf Ignaz Kner (24 August 1810 – 27 October 1869) was an Austrian geologist, paleontologist, zoologist and ichthyologist. He also wrote some poems which were published by his brother-in-law K.A. Kaltenbrunner. Biography Kner was born in Linz where his father Johann Evangelist Georg Kner (1763-1845) was a tax officer. His mother Barbara (1770-1825), daughter of forester Johann von Adlersburg was earlier married to apothecary Felix Gulielmo until his death. Barbara had a daughter Marie Gulielmo from her earlier marriage before having Rudolf and his sister Pauline. Pauline Anna Barbara Kner (1809-1843) married the Austrian poet Karl Adam Kaltenbrunner (1804-1867) in 1834. Rudolf studied in the secondary school in Linz from 1818 and the high school from 1821. During this period he was encouraged in the natural sciences with a gift of minerals from his uncle Hallstatt Maximilian Kner (1755–1821). From 1823 he went to the Stiftsgymnasium Kremsmünster. His godfather, Ign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family (, : ) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". The delineation of what constitutes a family—or whether a described family should be acknowledged—is established and decided upon by active taxonomists. There are not strict regulations for outlining or acknowledging a family, yet in the realm of plants, these classifications often rely on both the vegetative and reproductive characteristics of plant species. Taxonomists frequently hold varying perspectives on these descriptions, leading to a lack of widespread consensus within the scientific community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackish
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root '' brak''. Certain human activities can produce brackish water, in particular civil engineering projects such as dikes and the flooding of coastal marshland to produce brackish water pools for freshwater prawn farming. Brackish water is also the primary waste product of the salinity gradient power process. Because brackish water is hostile to the growth of most terrestrial plant species, without appropriate management it can be damaging to the environment (see article on shrimp farms). Technically, brackish water contains between 0.5 and 30 grams of salt per litre—more often expressed as 0.5 to 30 parts per thousand (‰), which is a spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Mainland Australia, Australia by the wide Torres Strait, though both landmasses lie on the same continental shelf, and were united during episodes of low sea level in the Pleistocene glaciations as the combined landmass of Sahul. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The island's name was given by Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez during his maritime expedition of 1545 due to the perceived resemblance of the indigenous peoples of the island to those in the Guinea (region), African region of Guinea. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the nation of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald R
Gerald is a masculine given name derived from the Germanic languages prefix ''ger-'' ("spear") and suffix ''-wald'' ("rule"). Gerald is a Norman French variant of the Germanic name. An Old English equivalent name was Garweald, the likely original name of Gerald of Mayo, a British Roman Catholic monk who established a monastery in Mayo, Ireland in 670. Nearly two centuries later, Gerald of Aurillac, a French count, took a vow of celibacy and later became known as the Roman Catholic patron saint of bachelors. The name was in regular use during the Middle Ages but declined after 1300 in England. It remained a common name in Ireland, where it was a common name among the powerful FitzGerald dynasty. The name was revived in the Anglosphere in the 19th century by writers of historical novels along with other names that had been popular in the medieval era. British novelist Ann Hatton published a novel called ''Gerald Fitzgerald'' in 1831. Author Dorothea Grubb published her nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
