Pseudomugilidae

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.