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Bony fish

Gon's Cardinalfish

Archamia bleekeri

Also known as: Nurseryfish, Yellowmouth Cardinalfish

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2024
Adult
@fishx6 · Ganghi, Maldives · March 20081 / 4
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Overview

Found in dense schools hovering above rocky outcrops, amongst mangroves, entering rivers and in deeper waters with shipwrecks, in silty conditions of coastal reefs.
They feed nocturnally on fish eggs, fish larvae, shrimps and pelagic worms

Males incubate their eggs inside their mouths, as the egg masses increase in size they can be found with wide open mouths where they shift the eggs around to aerate the egg masses.

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How to identify

Fins & Tail
tail spot

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-West Pacific
  • Country only · 4
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Found in dense schools hovering above rocky outcrops, amongst mangroves, entering rivers and in deeper waters with shipwrecks, in silty conditions of coastal reefs.

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Adult photos 4

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderApogoniformes
    5. familyApogonidae
    6. genusArchamia
    7. speciesArchamia bleekeri (Günther, 1859)

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    More in the family

    Cardinalfishes (Apogonidae)