''Kiunga'' is a
genus
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of
blue-eyes endemic
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to
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. The
generic name refers to the port town of
Kiunga in western Papua New Guinea, the
type
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of the
type species
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, ''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
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& Storey
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, 2024[Allen, 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
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& Storey
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, 2024[
* '' Kiunga leucozona '' G. R. Allen, Unmack, ]Hammer
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& Storey
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, 2024[
]
References
Pseudomugilinae
Freshwater fish of Papua New Guinea
Endemic fauna of Papua New Guinea
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