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Bony fish

Pharaoh Cardinalfish

Apogonichthyoides pharaonis

Also known as: Bullseye Cardinalfish, Nurseryfish

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2022
Adult
@designedforx · KE, Kenya · November 20151 / 1
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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.

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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.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderApogoniformes
    5. familyApogonidae
    6. genusApogonichthyoides
    7. speciesApogonichthyoides pharaonis (Bellotti, 1874)

    SourcesWoRMS

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    More in the family

    Cardinalfishes (Apogonidae)