Telmatherina sarasinorum

Telmatherina sarasinorum 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] This species was described in 1991 by Maurice Kottelat, the types being collected at Mengonuwai on Lake Matano.[3] Kottelat gave the species the specific name sarasinorum in honour of the Swiss second cousins, naturalists and ethnographers Paul (1856-1929) and Fritz Sarasin (1859-1942). The Sarasins discovered Lake Matano and collected the first specimens of fishes in the genus Telmatherina.[4]

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

Sources

1. Lumbantobing, D. 2019. Telmatherina sarasinorum. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T21579A90980212. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21579A90980212.en. Downloaded on 25 July 2019.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Telmatherina sarasinorum" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Telmatherina sarasinorum". 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.