Telmatherina opudi

Telmatherina opudi is a species of fish in the subfamily Telmatherininae part of the family Melanotaeniidae, the rainbowfishes. It is endemic to Indonesia.[2] his species was described in 1991 by Maurice Kottelat from a type locality of Lake Matano.[3] Kottelat gave the species the specific name of opudi which is the local name for all the species of Telmatherina found in Lake Matano.[4]

Telmatherina opudi
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Atheriniformes
Family:	Melanotaeniidae
Genus:	Telmatherina
Species:	T. opudi
Binomial name
Telmatherina opudi Kottelat, 1991

Sources

1. Lumbantobing, D. 2019. Telmatherina opudi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T21577A90980142. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21577A90980142.en. Downloaded on 25 July 2019.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Telmatherina opudi" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
3. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Telmatherina opudi". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
4. 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 13 July 2019.