Telmatherina abendanoni

Telmatherina abendanoni is a species of fish in the subfamily Telmatherininae part of the family Melanotaeniidae, the rainbowfishes. It is endemic to Indonesia where it occurs only in Lake Matano on the island of Sulawesi.[2] The specific name honours the Dutch malacologist and mining engineer Eduard Cornelius Abendanon (1878-1962), who was the leader of the Central Celebes Expedition of 1907–1918, on which the type was collected.[3]

Telmatherina abendanoni
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Atheriniformes
Family:	Melanotaeniidae
Genus:	Telmatherina
Species:	T. abendanoni
Binomial name
Telmatherina abendanoni M. C. W. Weber, 1913

Sources

1. Lumbantobing, D. 2019. Telmatherina abendanoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T21571A90979994. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21571A90979994.en. Downloaded on 25 July 2019.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Telmatherina abendanoni" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (14 March 2019). "Order ATHERINIFORMES: Families BEDOTIIDAE, MELANOTAENIIDAE, PSEUDOMUGILIDAE, TELMATHERINIDAE, ISONIDAE, DENTATHERINIDAE and PHALLOSTETHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 July 2019.