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Paska's blue-eye
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Atheriniformes
Family:	Melanotaeniidae
Genus:	Pseudomugil
Species:	P. paskai
Binomial name
Pseudomugil paskai G. R. Allen & Ivantsoff, 1986

Paska's blue-eye (Pseudomugil paskai) is a species of fish in the subfamily Pseudomugilinae. It is found in the Fly River system in Papua New Guinea. This species reaches a length of 3.0 cm (1.2 in).

Etymology

The specific name honours John Paska who was a technician with the Papua New Guinea Ministry of Fisheries.

References

1. Palmer-Newton, A. (2020). "Pseudomugil paskai". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T18547A147757519. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T18547A147757519.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
2. Adrian R. Lappin (March 2016). "Pseudomugil paskai". Rainbowfish. ANGFA. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pseudomugil paskai". FishBase. February 2019 version.
4. 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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• Taxa named by Walter Ivantsoff
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