''Pseudomugil'' is a

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fish A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can ...

in the family

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' ...

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and

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 ...

, where they are found in

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...

rivers and streams and bodies of

brackish water 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 estuary ...

Description

Members of this genus have slender bodies and two

dorsal fin A dorsal fin is a fin on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates. Dorsal fins have evolved independently several times through convergent evolution adapting to marine environments, so the fins are not all homologous. They are found ...

s. They are usually

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.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 diminutive species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Pseudomugilinae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, south-east of Popondetta, where it is found in rainforest Rainforests are forest ...

'' Nichols, 1955 (Fork-tail blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil gertrudae'' M. C. W. Weber, 1911 (Spotted blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil inconspicuus'' T. R. Roberts, 1978 (Inconspicuous blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil ivantsoffi'' G. R. Allen & Renyaan, 1999 (Ivantsoff's blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil luminatus'' G. R. Allen, Unmack & Hadiaty, 2016 (Red Neon blue-eye) Allen, G.R., Unmack, P.J. & Hadiaty, R.K. (2016): ''Pseudomugil luminatus'', a new species of Blue-eye (Teleostei: Pseudomugilidae) from southern New Guinea, with notes on ''P. gertrudae''. ''Fishes of Sahul, 30 (1): 950-961.'' * '' Pseudomugil majusculus'' Ivantsoff & G. R. Allen, 1984 (Cape blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil mellis'' G. R. Allen & Ivantsoff, 1982 (Honey blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil novaeguineae'' M. C. W. Weber, 1907 (New Guinea blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil paludicola'' G. R. Allen & R. Moore, 1981 (Swamp blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil paskai'' G. R. Allen & Ivantsoff, 1986 (Paska's blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil pellucidus'' G. R. Allen & Ivantsoff, 1998 (Transparent blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil reticulatus'' G. R. Allen & Ivantsoff, 1986 (Vogelkop blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil signifer'' Kner, 1866 (Pacific blue-eye) * '' Pseudomugil tenellus'' W. R. Taylor, 1964 (Delicate blue-eye)

References

External links

Pacific blue-eye in the wild video on Youtube

Wild Pacific blue-eye video on Youtube
{{Taxonbar, from=Q585074 Freshwater fish genera Pseudomugilinae Taxa named by Rudolf Kner Taxonomy articles created by Polbot