Melanotaenia patoti

Taxonavigation: Atherinoidei

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Ovalentaria Superordo: Atherinomorphae Ordo: Atheriniformes Subordo: Atherinoidei

Familia: Melanotaeniidae
Genus: Melanotaenia
Species: Melanotaenia patoti

Name

Melanotaenia patoti (Weber, 1907)

• Lectotype: ZMA 103199.
• Paralectotypes: BMNH 1913.12.15.40 (1); CSIRO B 1192 (1); RMNH 23220 (1); CAS-SU (1, missing or not received); ZMA 103156 (now. 3).

Type locality: Rivlet at Nigri Lama, west coast Terangan [now spelled Trangan] Island, Aru Islands, Indonesia.

Etymology: This species was named patoti in recognition of its first collector W. F. Tissot van Patot who visited the islands in 1907.

Synonyms

• Rhombatractus patoti Weber, 1907

Vernacular names

English: Patoti’s Rainbowfish

References

• Allen, G. R., Hadiaty, R. K., Unmack, P. J. & Erdmann, M. V., 2015: Rainbowfishes (Melanotaenia: Melanotaeniidae) of the Aru Islands, Indonesia with descriptions of five new species and redescription of M. patoti Weber and M. senckenbergianus Weber. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 21 (2): 66–108.

• Weber, M. 1907. Eine zoogeographische Prophezeiung. Zoologischer Anzeiger 32(14): 401–404. BHL Reference page.