Chilatherina bleheri

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	ATHERINIFORMES	MELANOTAENIIDAE

Scientific Name:	Chilatherina bleheri
Species Authority:	Allen, 1985
Common Name/s: English – Bleher's Rainbowfish

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Vulnerable   A2e   ver 2.3
Year Assessed:	1996
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Allen, G.
History:	1994 – Rare (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	C. bleheri is endemic to Indonesia, occurring in Danau Biru (Lake Holmes) in the Mamberamo River system of Irian Jaya.
Countries:	Native: Indonesia (Irian Jaya)

Population [top]

Population Trend:

Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	The habitat consists of three interconnected freshwater lakes lying within a radius of six to seven kilometers. The largest lake in this system is about 4.5 km long and 2 km wide.
Systems:	Freshwater

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):

The main threats to this species are the presence of introduced species such as carp and tilapia, and the increasingly common gill netting fisheries on the lakes.

Bibliography [top]

Allen, G. 1996. In litt. Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.