Popta's buntingi

Popta's buntingi (Adrianichthys poptae) is an endangered species of fish in the family Adrianichthyidae. It is endemic to Lake Poso in Sulawesi, Indonesia.^[2]

Popta's buntingi
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beloniformes
Family:	Adrianichthyidae
Genus:	Adrianichthys
Species:	A. poptae
Binomial name
Adrianichthys poptae (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1922)
Synonyms
Xenopoecilus poptae M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1922

Etymology

This species was described by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber and Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort in 1922^[3] and they gave it the species name poptae in honour of their fellow Dutch ichthyologist Canna Maria Louise Popta (1860-1929).^[4]