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The threadfin rainbowfish or featherfin rainbowfish (Iriatherina werneri) is a rainbowfish, the only species in the genus Iriatherina. It is characterized by long ...
Ranging in length from 11 cm (4.5 in) in the dwarf threadfin (Parapolynemus verekeri) to 2 m (6.6 ft) in fourfinger threadfin (Eleutheronema tetradactylum) and giant African threadfin (Polydactylus quadrifilis), threadfins are both important to commercial fisheries as a food fish, and popular among anglers. Their habit of forming large schools ...
Eleutheronema tetradactylum, the fourfinger threadfin, known as ranwas in India is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a threadfin from the family Polynemidae which occurs in the Indian and western Pacific Ocean.
Also known as golden wrasse, golden rainbowfish, and canary wrasse; scientific name halichoeres chrysus. Maximum length: 5.5 inches Wild habitat: Australia, Indonesia.
Eleutheronema rhadinum (Jordan & Evermann, 1902) (East Asian fourfinger threadfin) Eleutheronema tetradactylum (Shaw, 1804) (Fourfinger threadfin) Eleutheronema tridactylum (Bleeker, 1849) (Threefinger threadfin)
Threadfin rainbowfish; This page was last edited on 30 June 2019, at 16:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Polydactylus is a genus of threadfin that mainly are native to the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, especially in coastal or brackish waters (such as mangrove or estuaries). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Some may even enter rivers and a single, P. macrophthalmus , is a freshwater fish from rivers in Borneo .
Almost all rainbowfish species are bred in captivity and wild populations may be protected. [66] Threadfin rainbowfish: Iriatherina werneri: 3–4 cm (1.2–1.6 in) New Guinea rainbowfish: Melanotaenia affinis: 13 cm (5.1 in) Boeseman's rainbowfish: Melanotaenia boesemani: 10–13 cm (3.9–5.1 in) Lake Kurumoi rainbowfish: Melanotaenia parva