Telmatherina abendanoni
# Telmatherina abendanoni

Telmatherina abendanoni 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. The specific name honours the Dutch malacologist and mining engineer Eduard Cornelius Abendanon (1878-1962), who was the leader of the Central Celebes Expedition of 1907–1918, on which the type was collected.

## Sources

* ↑ Lumbantobing, D. (2019). "Telmatherina abendanoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T21571A90979994. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T21571A90979994.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
* ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Telmatherina abendanoni" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
* ↑ 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 11 July 2019.
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