Black-banded rainbowfish
Amazing fact
Black-banded rainbowfish eggs have filaments that stick to aquatic plants.
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Black-banded rainbowfish eggs have filaments that stick to aquatic plants.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Black-banded rainbowfish
- Scientific name
- Melanotaenia nigrans
- Japanese name
- オーストラリアンレインボー
- Group
- Freshwater animals
- Order
- Atheriniformes
- Family
- Melanotaeniidae
- Genus
- Melanotaenia
Where the name “Black-banded rainbowfish” comes from
Its species name means “black” and refers to the dark stripe along its side.
Museums VictoriaHow the Black-banded rainbowfish lives
It lives in places such as slow-flowing rivers and small swampy creeks. It eats aquatic and land insects and threadlike green algae. It spawns year-round in favorable conditions, with a peak in the wet season. Newly hatched larvae already have fully formed mouths and pectoral fins.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Northern Australia
Where the Black-banded rainbowfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 简体中文
- 黑带虹银汉鱼
- 繁體中文
- 黑帶虹銀漢魚
- Deutsch
- Schwarzband-Regenbogenfisch
- Português (Brasil)
- Pelangia-de-linha-preta
- Русский
- Меланотения-нигранс
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — オーストラリアンレインボーChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Blackbanded Rainbowfish, Melanotaenia nigransChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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