Red-finned blue-eye

Red-finned Blue-eye
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.

Conservation status

It is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, and as Endangered under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992.

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