The red neon blue-eye (''Pseudomugil luminatus'') is a species of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing 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. Approximately 95% of li ...
in the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
Pseudomugilinae
The Pseudomugilidae, the blue-eyes, are a subfamily of atheriniform fish in the rainbowfish family Melanotaeniidae. They inhabit fresh and brackish water in Australia, New Guinea and nearby smaller islands. Blue-eyes are small fish, typically n ...
. It has only been recorded from swamps in the vicinity of Timika in
Papua, Indonesia.
References
luminatus
Taxa named by Gerald R. Allen
Taxa named by Peter J. Unmack
Taxa named by Renny Kurnia Hadiaty
Fish described in 2016
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