Animalia > Chordata > Atheriniformes > Melanotaeniidae > Melanotaenia > Melanotaenia nigrans

Melanotaenia nigrans (Australian redtailed rainbowfish; Yalgurnda; Spotted sunfish; Red-tailed rainbowfish; Mauve rainbow-fish; Common freshwater sunfish; Black-banded rainbowfish; Blackbanded rainbowfish; Black-banded jewelfish; Black striped rainbow fish; Australian rainbow)

Synonyms: Atherina nigrans; Melanotaenia nigra
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Wikipedia Abstract

The black-banded rainbowfish (Melanotaenia nigrans) is a species of rainbow fish belonging to the Melanotaeniidae family. The species is endemic to Australia. Importantly, the species is the type species of the family Melanotaeniidae
View Wikipedia Record: Melanotaenia nigrans

Predators

Thryssa scratchleyi (New Guinea thryssa)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Chilodonella hexasticha[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0