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| Chilatherina lorentzi - photo© Gerald Allen |
(Weber, 1908)
Lorentz's Rainbowfish
Description
The basic colour is silvery or bluish on the back and sides, and white ventrally. Males have a broad dark blue or black midlateral band and yellowish fins.
Distribution
Known only from the Sermowai and Tawarin rivers on the north coast of West Papua, and from Puive Creek, a tributary of the Pual River, near Vanimo, Papua New Guinea.
Habitat & Ecology
Collected in 1979 from slow-flowing stream that was enclosed by dense rainforest. The bottom was covered entirely with leaf litter. The fishes were confined in the deeper sections of the stream in the vicinity of waterplants and debris. Temperature 28° Celsius and pH 7.8. May attain a length of about 12 cm with a body depth of around 3-4 cm.
Remarks
This species is poorly known and live specimens have never been collected for the aquarium hobby.
© Copyright Adrian R. Tappin
Updated January, 2007.
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