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/A Diversity of Aquatic Life

Cardinalfishes, Family Apogonidae, Pt. 5

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By Bob Fenner

 
Pristiapogon menesemus (Jenkins 1903), Bandfin Cardinalfish. May be same species (A. taeniopterus) as found elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific (according to fishbase.org). Distinguished by bar on caudal according to Randall. Big Island pic of a male.

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Genus Pseudamia

Pseudamia amblyuroptera (Bleeker 1856). Indo-West Pacific. To six inches in length. Not a great beauty, but one of the more common Cardinalfishes offered in the hobby.

Genus Pterapogon

Pterapogon kauderni Koumans 1933, the Banggai Cardinalfish. Restricted in distribution to Banggai Island, Indonesia, though commercially produced in good numbers in Indonesia and elsewhere. To three inches in length. A darling of the ornamental aquatics industry and hobby. Readily reproduced in captivity. Young cluster about large/symbiotic anemones tentacles or the spines of the Urchin Diadema setosum when threatened.

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