Pseudomugil furcatus. Painting by Ken McKeighen (Includes Shipping to Canada & the U.S.)

Pseudomugil furcatus - Fork-tail Blue-eye. Painting by Ken McKeighen (Includes Shipping to Canada & the U.S.)

This painting is of a male. This species was originally named Pseudomugil furcatus in 1955 by John Treadwell Nichols, curator of recent fishes at the American Museum of Natural History. They were collected by Hobart M. Van Deusen during the Forth Archbold Expedition to New Guinea in 1953. In a review of the family Melanotaeniidae in 1980, they were separated from the Pseudomugil genus and placed in a new genus Popondetta, and the name was changed to Popondetta furcata. It was then later discovered that the genus name 'Popondetta' was previously used and in 1987 they underwent another name change and were then called Popondichthys furcatus. Two years were to pass and following a review of the Pseudomugil genus in 1989, the blue-eye group, including Popondichthys furcatus, were placed in their own family Pseudomugilidae and they were returned to their original name of Pseudomugil furcatus.
Painted by Ken McKeighen June 4 2025. I received this art direct from the artist.

Width: 30.48cms (12 ")

Height: 22.86cms (9 ")