Sentani Rainbowfish
This attractive rainbowfish species is rarely seen in the trade. By good feeding in the aquarium its colouration will become more intensive. This species is a perfect mate to Glossolepis incisus and other species like gobioids that inhabit the Sentani Lake near Jayapura.
This species was described in 1907 by the German-Dutch scientist Max Weber among others collected by a dutch scientific expedition to the island New Guinea by the Netherlands in 1903. Weber named it Rhombatractus sentanienis. Today it is place in the Genus Chilatherina sentaniensis.
Distribution: The species was named after after Lake Sentani, elevation 75 m over sea level, where the type specimens have been collected. Later expeditions to the lake showed that the species can be found rather in the affluences of the lake than in the lake itself.
- Geographical region
- Drainage Basin
- River catchment
- Water body type
- Water body name
- Water body part
- Water body course
- Water body: tributary of
- Tributary name
- Type locality
- Lake Sentani, Irian Jaya, Indonesia
- Conservation status/IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated (NE)