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Melanorhinus

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Genus of fishes

Melanorhinus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Atheriniformes
Family:	Atherinopsidae
Tribe:	Membranini
Genus:	Melanorhinus Metzelaar, 1919

Melanorhinus is a genus of Neotropical silversides (fish) from the Caribbean Sea and Bahamas.

Species

There are currently three recognized species in this genus:

Melanorhinus boekei Metzelaar, 1919 (St. Maarten pejerry)
Melanorhinus cyanellus (Meek & Hildebrand, 1923) (Blackback silverside)
Melanorhinus microps (Poey, 1860) (Querimana silverside)

References

Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Melanorhinus". FishBase. June 2012 version.

Taxon identifiers
Melanorhinus	Wikidata: Q645785 Wikispecies: Melanorhinus BOLD: 99968 CoL: 5NJG GBIF: 2412284 iNaturalist: 89839 IRMNG: 1290896 ITIS: 166058 NCBI: 1144223 Open Tree of Life: 250682 WoRMS: 269832

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