Pharaoh Cardinalfish
Apogonichthyoides pharaonis
Also known as: Bullseye Cardinalfish, Nurseryfish
- Bullseye Cardinalfish
- Nurseryfish
Overview
Found hiding in caves, crevices, and in seagrass beds, of silt reefs, dispersing at night foraging for food, in mangroves and seagrass beds.
They feed nocturnally on zooplankton.
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.
How to identify
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Western Indian Ocean, Mediterranean
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Found hiding in caves, crevices, and in seagrass beds, of silt reefs, dispersing at night foraging for food, in mangroves and seagrass beds.
Adult photos 1
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Deep dive
Taxonomy
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classTeleostei
- orderApogoniformes
- familyApogonidae
- genusApogonichthyoides
- speciesApogonichthyoides pharaonis (Bellotti, 1874)
SourcesWoRMS
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