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Teleostei (teleosts) > Atheriniformes (Silversides) > Melanotaeniidae (Rainbowfishes, blue eyes)
Etymology: Melanotaenia: Greek, melan, -anos = black + latin, taenia = stripe (Ref. 45335); manibuii: Named for Alfons Manibui, Bupati from Bintuni (Ref. 103156).
Eponymy: Alfons Manibui is the Bupati (local leader) from Bintuni, a town near the type locality in western New Guinea. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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Freshwater; benthopelagic. Tropical

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Asia: Indonesia (West Papua).

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 103156)

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This species is distinguished from its congeners in the Birds Head region by the following characters: D IV-V+I,13-16; A I, 22-25; 35-37 lateral scales; 10 transverse scales; 15-18 anterior scales; 13-19 cheek scales; 18-19 gillrakers; short head length (24.0-25.1% of SL); small eye diameter (6.8-8.0% of SL); longer snout length (8.6-9.3% of SL); wider interorbital width (8.8-9.2% of SL); deeper caudal peduncle (11.7-13.3% of SL); deeper and shorter caudal peduncle length (13.6-15.4% of SL); anterior dorsal length short (47.5-49.9% of SL); first dorsal fin spine length moderately short, 9.7-12.0% of SL; intermediate spine length on second dorsal fin, 7.8-12.2% of SL, and on the anal fin, 7.2-9.8% of SL; moderately long dorsal fin base length, 37.2-41.8% of SL, and second dorsal fin base length, 24.0-28.7% of SL; moderately long anal fin base length, 40.0-43.9% of SL; origin of the dorsal fin lies vertically posterior to the anal origin, between 1st and 3rd anal soft ray; no stripes on the margin of the dorsal and anal fins; absence of sexual dimorphism in contrast to most members of the genus (Ref. 103156).

Collected from the type locality, a stream which flows through secondary forest habitat over gravel and sandy bottom. Maximum length based on type specimen, to be replaced with a better reference (Ref. 103156).

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Nugraha, M.F.I., Kadarusman, N. Hubert, J.C. Avarre, R.K. Hadiaty, J. Slembrouck, O. Carman, Sudarto, R. Ogistira and L. Pouyaud, 2015. Eight new species of rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from the Birds Head Region, West Papua, Indonesia. Cybium 39(2):99-130. (Ref. 103156)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

Endangered (EN) (B1ab(iii)); Date assessed: 05 December 2019

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Fisheries: of no interest

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01122 (0.00514 - 0.02450), b=3.04 (2.87 - 3.21), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 2.9 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Melanotaenia manibuii Kadarusman, Slembrouck & Pouyaud, 2015