| Marine sailfin silverside | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Atheriniformes |
| Family: | Melanotaeniidae |
| Subfamily: | Telmatherininae |
| Genus: | Kalyptatherina Saeed & Ivantsoff, 1991 |
| Species: | K. helodes |
| Binomial name | |
| Kalyptatherina helodes (Ivantsoff & G. R. Allen, 1984) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pseudomugil helodes Ivantsoff & Allen, 1984 | |
The marine sailfin silverside (Kalyptatherina helodes) is a species of sailfin silverside endemic to Indonesia, where it is only known from mangrove swamps around Misool and Batanta Islands. This species grows to 4.5 cm (1.8 in) total length. It is the only known member of its genus.
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Kalyptatherina helodes". FishBase. February 2019 version.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Kalyptatherina helodes | |
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