The Pseudomugilidae, the blue-eyes, are a

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of atheriniform fish. They were formerly treated as a subfamily of the Melanotaeniidae. They inhabit fresh and

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 estuari ...

water in Australia,

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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 ''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 ...

'' Kner, 1866 * ''

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 ...

'' Ivantsoff, Unmack, Saeed & Crowley, 1991

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q882360 Melanotaeniidae