''Pseudomugil ivantsoffi'' is a species of
blue-eye from the
subfamily
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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' ...
, part of the
rainbowfish
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family
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Melanotaeniidae. It is
endemic
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to
Western Papua in Indonesia.
It was
described in 1999 by Gerald R. Allen and Samuel J. Renyaan from
types
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collected in southern
Irian Jaya
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Austral ...
at two locations one a tributary of the
Kopi River approximately of the Tembagapura Road and from the mile 39 Camp of the Freeport Mining Company
in 1995.
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Etymology
They named the species in honour of the ichthyologist
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