Rainbow fish

[ghostknife]

I didn't know where else to post this.

Today i bought two rainbow fish (they were £6 EACH!!) and they were under the name Melanotaenia jervani (spelling?) but when i asked the guy he said they were a hybrid between m. boesmani and red rainbow (scientific name?). Is it possible to hybrid these fish and is there such thing as m.jervani??

 

[Lateral Line]

The Red Rainbow is Glossolepis incisus thus not the same genus as M. boesmani. They are of the same family of course, and I guess it may be distantly for them to be hybridised but highly unlikely I would say. Why anyone would want to do that escapes me. Usually hybrids do not have scientific names. I can't find M. jevani or anything that sounds like that.

Try to post a picture of them.