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The Rainbow Fish is a children's picture book drawn and written by Swiss author and illustrator, Marcus Pfister, and translated into English by J. Alison James.The book is best known for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.
Melanotaenia duboulayi, the crimson-spotted rainbowfish, less commonly known as the Duboulay's rainbowfish, [2] is a species of freshwater fish endemic to coastal eastern Australia, although M. duboulayi has also been kept as an aquarium fish since the early 20th century, and is the original "Australian rainbowfish".
In a home setting, these fish need well-oxygenated water with a pH level of 6.8 – 7.2, optimal temperatures varying between 72 and 82 °F (22 and 28 °C), and plenty of aquatic plants to give them hiding places amid their school. If properly cared for, Rainbowfish can live up to 5 years in captivity. [5]
Axelrod's rainbowfish (Chilatherina axelrodi) is a species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Melanotaeniinae.It is found in Papua New Guinea in the Yungkiri stream in the north western part of that nation.
Meinken honoured the German aquarium fish trader Arthur Werner, who collected the type, in the specific name. The generic name is a combination of Iri referring to Irian Jaya and atherina , referring to the silverside genus Atherina as they were thought to be in the same family at the time of naming. [ 5 ]
Melanotaenia splendida splendida, also known as the eastern rainbowfish, is a subspecies of fish in the family Melanotaeniidae endemic to Australia. [1]The Eastern rainbowfish is widespread on the mainland, and is found in river systems east of the Great Dividing Range of Queensland, Australia, from the Boyne River south of Gladstone to Cape York Peninsula.
The Waigeo rainbowfish (Melanotaenia catherinae) is a species of rainbowfish in the subfamily Melanotaeniinae.It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia.It reaches a maximum length of around 7.5 cm. [2] This species was described as Rhombatractus catherinae in 1910 by Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort from a type locality which was given as a rivulet flowing into the Rabial River in Waigeo.
In the wild, the Running River rainbowfish is confined to a 13 km stretch of Running River, isolated between two gorges. [2] In August 2015, ecologists Peter Unmack and Michael Hammer discovered that eastern rainbowfish had been introduced into the upper section of Running River, and were hybridising and introgressing with the Running River rainbowfish.