Vogelkop blue-eye

Pseudomugil reticulatus

Critically Endangered Pseudomugilid Fish of Indonesian Waters

Blue
Tropical
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Southeast Asia
Fusiform
Small
Tropical fish

The Vogelkop blue-eye (Pseudomugil reticulatus) is a species of fish in the subfamily Pseudomugilinae (blue-eyes), which itself is a part of the Melanotaeniidae, or rainbowfishes. It is known from a single specimen, found in the middle of the Bird's Head or Vogelkop Peninsula, in the western part of the island of New Guinea.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Silversides
Family: Pseudomugilidae
Genus: Pseudomugil
Maximum length: 2.8 cm
Water: Freshwater
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Asia: known only from a single specimen collected from a rainforest stream, about 2 km east of Ajamaru Village in the middle of the Vogelkop Peninsula, Irian Jaya, Indonesia.
Conservation status: CRCritically Endangered

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