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Rhadinocentrus ornatus Regan, 1914

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Regan, C. T. (1914). Report on the freshwater fishes collected by the British Ornithologists' Union expedition and the Wollaston expedition in Dutch New Guinea. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> v. 20 (pt 6, no. 1) (art. 6): 275-286, Pl. 31.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Atheriniformes
family
Melanotaeniidae
genus
Rhadinocentrus
species
Rhadinocentrus ornatus

Name

Synonyms
Rhadiocentrus ornatus Regan, 1914
Homonyms
Rhadinocentrus ornatus Regan, 1914
Common names
Blue Spotted Sunfish in English
Moreton Island Sunfish in English
Neon Light Sunfish in English
Ornate Rainbow Fish in English
Pelangia-ornata in Portuguese
Porthole Fish in English
Soft-spined Rainbowfish in English
Soft-spined Sunfish in English
Southern Soft-spined Sun-fish in English
Southern Soft-spined Sunfish in English
Southern Sunfish in English
duhovka moretonská in Czech
Южная мягкопёрая радужница in Russian

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  3. Regan, C. T. (1914). Report on the freshwater fishes collected by the British Ornithologists' Union expedition and the Wollaston expedition in Dutch New Guinea. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> v. 20 (pt 6, no. 1) (art. 6): 275-286, Pl. 31.
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