Red-finned blue-eye
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| Red-finned Blue-eye | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Atheriniformes |
| Family: | Pseudomugilidae |
| Genus: | Scaturiginichthys |
| Species: | S. vermeilipinnis |
| Binomial name | |
| Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis Ivantsoff, Unmack, Saeed & Crowley, 1991 |
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The Red-finned Blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) is a species of fish in the Pseudomugilidae family. It is endemic to Australia, with the remaining population restricted to four springs on Bush Heritage's Edgbaston Reserve in Central Queensland.
[edit] Conservation status
It is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, and as Endangered under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992.
[edit] Reference
- Wager, R. 1996. Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 August 2007.
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