Cercamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
| Cercamia Temporal range: Late Miocene-present,
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| Cercamia eremia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae |
| Genus: | Cercamia J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988 |
| Type species | |
| Cercamia cladara Randall & Smith 1988[1]
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Species
editThe recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Cercamia cladara J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
- Cercamia eremia (G. R. Allen, 1987) (glassy cardinalfish)
- Cercamia melanogaster G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Mahardini, 2015 (blackbelly cardinalfish) [3]
The former genus Apogonoides is now thought to be synonymous with Cercamia.[4] The extinct species C. cottreaci (described as Apogonoides cottreaci) is known from the Late Miocene of Algeria.[5]
References
edit- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
- ^ Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.
- ^ Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V. & Mahardini, A. (2015). "Cercamia melanogaster, a new species of cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 14: 57–65.
- ^ Fraser, Thomas H.; Bogorodsky, Sergey V. (2019-04-08). "Status of the cardinalfish genus Apogonoides and its type species Apogonoides macassariensis (Percomorpha: Apogonidae)". Zootaxa. 4577 (3): 579–584. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.11. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
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