FIGURE 7 in Revision of the Australian Wet Tropics endemic rainbowfish genus Cairnsichthys (Atheriniformes: Melanotaeniidae), with description of a new species

FIGURE 7. Comparative specimen images of sister rainbowfish species: (left) Cairnsichthys bitaeniatus sp. nov. (A) freshly prepared holotype (QM I.39335), 65.6 mm SL male, Little Cooper Creek, (B) preserved holotype, (C) freshly prepared specimen (NTM S.17778-001), 44.4 mm SL male, Little Cooper Creek, (D) radiograph of holotype with arrow highlighting the close arrangement of the first two anal fin rays compared to the following rays, and (right) C. rhombosomoides (E) freshly prepared specimen (NTM S.17700-001), 52.4 mm SL male, Smoko Creek, (F) preserved specimen, Smoko Creek (NTM S.17700-001), (G) preserved paratype (AMS IA.4774) 37.5 mm SL, Babinda Creek, (H) radiograph of representative specimen with arrow highlighting different spacing of anal fin rays (NTM S.17930-001), 50.0 mm SL male, Nyleta Creek.