Red-finned Blue-eye | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Atheriniformes |
Family: | Pseudomugilidae |
Genus: | Scaturiginichthys |
Species: | S. vermeilipinnis |
Binomial name | |
Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis Ivantsoff, Unmack, Saeed & Crowley, 1991 |
The Red-finned Blue-eye (Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis) is a species of fish in the Pseudomugilidae family. It is endemic to Australia, with the remaining population restricted to four springs on Bush Heritage's Edgbaston Reserve in Central Queensland.
It is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, and as Endangered under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992.