Flower Cardinalfish

Taxobox
name = "Cardinalfish"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Apogonidae
genus = "Apogon"
species = "A. fleurieu"
binomial = "Apogon fleurieu"
binomial_authority = Also known as the flower cardinalfishLieske, E. and Myers, R.F. (2004) "Coral reef guide; Red Sea" London, HarperCollins ISBN 0-00-715986-2] , this is the type species of the cardinalfishes.

Range

Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and East Africa, Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, the Indo-Malayan region and Hong Kong.FishBase_species|genus=Apogon|species=fleurieu|year=2007|month=5]

Description

", where the black tail bar is narrower in the centre than at the ends.

Habitat

Adults occur in small schools made up of pairs of fish from 7m to at least 73m depth, associated with coral reefs.

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