Chilatherina
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Chilatherina is a genus of fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

 in the Melanotaeniidae family.
It contains the following species:
  • Axelrod's rainbowfish
    Axelrod's rainbowfish
    Axelrod's rainbowfish is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Distribution: Chilatherina axelrodi are found in the Yungkiri stream in the north western part of Papua New Guinea...

     (Chilatherina axelrodi)
  • Bleher's rainbowfish
    Bleher's rainbowfish
    Bleher's rainbowfish is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. Distribution: Bleher’s rainbowfish is found in both Australia’s Lake Holmes and the lower Mamberamo system of West Papua in Indonesia...

     (Chilatherina bleheri)
  • bulolo rainbowfish
    Bulolo rainbowfish
    The bulolo rainbowfish is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. Distribution: Bulolo Rainbowfish are found in the fast flowing, rapid water of the mountain streams in the Markham and Ramu river systems of north-eastern Papua New Guinea. It was first collected in 1934 and then not again...

     (Chilatherina bulolo)
  • sentani rainbowfish
    Sentani rainbowfish
    The sentani rainbowfish is a species of fish in the Melanotaeniidae family. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia. Its natural habitat is a freshwater lake called Lake Sentani.-Source:...

     (Chilatherina sentaniensis)
  • Highlands rainbowfish (Chilatherina campsi)
  • Silver rainbowfish (Chilatherina crassispinosa)
  • Barred rainbowfish (Chilatherina fasciata)
  • Lorentz’ rainbowfish (Chilatherina lorentzii)

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