Flower Cardinalfish

Cardinalfish
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Apogonidae
Genus: Apogon
Species: A. fleurieu
Binomial name
Apogon fleurieu
Lacepède, 1802
Synonyms
  • Apogon fleurieu
  • Apogon sp.
  • Ostorhinchus fleurieu
  • Ostorhinchus fleurieu
  • Ostorhynchus fleurieu

The flower cardinalfish[2] (apogon fleurieu) is the type species of the cardinalfishes.

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Range

Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and East Africa, Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, the Indo-Malayan region and Hong Kong.[3]

Description

A coppery-coloured fish with a broad blackish bar at the base of the tail up to 12.5 cm in length. In juveniles the base of the tail has a spot rather than a bar. The upper jaw has a narrow blue streak, and a broad blackish stripe extends from the front of the snout to the eye. Easily confused with Apogon aureus, where the black tail bar is narrower in the centre than at the ends.

Habitat

Adults occur in small schools made up of pairs of fish from 7m to at least 73m depth, associated with coral reefs.

References

  1. ^ Fricke, R. & Gon, O. (2009). "Apogon fleurieu". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/154912. Retrieved 30 March 2011. 
  2. ^ Lieske, E. and Myers, R.F. (2004) Coral reef guide; Red Sea London, HarperCollins ISBN 0-00-715986-2
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2007). "Apogon fleurieu" in FishBase. 5 2007 version.