Cercamia
Appearance
Cercamia | |
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Cercamia eremia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Apogonidae |
Subfamily: | Apogoninae |
Genus: | Cercamia J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988 |
Type species | |
Cercamia cladara Randall & Smith 1988[1]
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Cercamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Cercamia cladara J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
- Cercamia eremia (G. R. Allen, 1987) (glassy cardinalfish)
- Cercamia melanogaster G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Mahardini, 2015 (blackbelly cardinalfish) [3]
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
- ^ Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.
- ^ Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V. & Mahardini, A. (2015). "Cercamia melanogaster, a new species of cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 14: 57–65.