Ghost Cardinalfish (species: Nectamia fusca) in Frankland Island Group, QLD (Gaia Guide)
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Nectamia fusca
Ghost Cardinalfish


©Anne: Nectamia fusca at Lizard Island at night. Note that the characteristic bar below the eye is very indistinct in this specimen.

©Rickard Zerpe

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Apogonidae
Genus Nectamia
Species Nectamia fusca

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Distinguishing features

Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

Size

  • Up to 11.2 cm (Total length)

Depth range

  • From 1 m to 20 m

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

Common in reef flats and shallow lagoons, but hiding by day within Acropora thickets and other corals, as well as in holes and crevices and emerging at night to forage. Also found in sheltered seaward slopes. (Fishbase)

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References

  • Barnett, A. (2004). The trophic and reproductive implications of mouthbrooding in apogonid fishes, Honours thesis, James Cook University. LIRS catalog number 946.
  • Barnett, A. and D.R. Bellwood (2005). Sexual dimorphism in the buccal cavity of paternal mouthbrooding cardinalfishes (Pisces: Apogonidae), Marine Biology, 148: 205-212. LIRS catalog number 1021.
  • Barnett, A., D.R. Bellwood and A.S. Hoey (2006). Trophic ecomorphology of cardinalfish, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 322: 249-257. LIRS catalog number 1020.
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