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Corona rainbowfish
Conservation status
Critically endangered, possibly extinct  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Atheriniformes
Family:	Melanotaeniidae
Genus:	Melanotaenia
Species:	M. corona
Binomial name
Melanotaenia corona G. R. Allen, 1982

The corona rainbowfish (Melanotaenia corona) is a species of fish in the family Melanotaeniidae. It is endemic to West Papua in Indonesia. Only two specimens of this rainbowfish have ever been collected, both males from the Sermowai River in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, which were collected in 1911 by K. Gjellerup.

References

1. Allen, G.R.; Kadarusman.; Unmack, P. (2020). "Melanotaenia corona". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T13060A147682131. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T13060A147682131.en. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Melanotaenia corona". FishBase. April 2019 version.
3. Gerald R. Allen (1982). "Melanotaenia corona, a new species of rainbowfish from northern New Guinea (Pisces, Atheriniformes, Melanotaeniidae)". Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam. 8 (21): 173–176.

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