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Cardinalfishes are a family, Apogonidae, of ray-finned fishes. They are found in the Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
, Indian
Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....
, and Pacific
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 oceans, they are chiefly marine, but some species are found in brackish water. A handful of species are kept in the aquarium and are popular as small, peaceful, and colourful fish.

They are generally small fish, with most species being less than , and are often brightly coloured.






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Cardinalfishes are a family, Apogonidae, of ray-finned fishes. They are found in the Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
, Indian
Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....
, and Pacific
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 oceans, they are chiefly marine, but some species are found in brackish water. A handful of species are kept in the aquarium and are popular as small, peaceful, and colourful fish.

They are generally small fish, with most species being less than , and are often brightly coloured. They are distinguished by their large mouths, and the division of the dorsal fin
Dorsal fin

A wikt:dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish, whales, dolphins, and porpoises, as well as the ichthyosaurs. Its main purpose is to stabilize the animal against rolling and assist in sudden turns....
 into two separate fins. Most species live in tropical or subtropical waters, where they inhabit coral reef
Coral reef

Coral reefs are aragonite structures produced by living organisms. In most reefs the predominant organisms are colonial cnidarian that secrete an exoskeleton of calcium carbonate....
s and lagoon
Lagoon

A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow sea water or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed Bar , reef, or similar feature....
s.

They are nocturnal, spending the day in dark crevices within the reef. At least some species brood the eggs inside the mouth of the males.

Genera

FishBase
FishBase

FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish. , it included descriptions of over 30,000 species, over 260,000 common names in hundreds of languages, over 46,000 pictures, and references to more than 42,000 works in the scientific literature....
 lists 331 species in the following 24 genera. The genus Epigonus
Epigonus

Epigonus of Pergamum was the chief among the court sculptors to the Attalid dynasty at Pergamum in the late third century BCE. Pliny the Elder, who offers the only surviving list of the sculptors of this influential :Category:Pergamene sculpture attributes to him works among the sculptures on the victory monument erected by Attalus I in the s...
, formerly classified in Apogonidae, is placed in a separate family, Epigonidae, by FishBase.

Family APOGONIDAE
  • Subfamily Apogoninae
    • Apogon
      Apogon

      Apogon is a large genus of cardinalfishes with 207 currently described species. Many of these fishes live at depths of 200 m or more and can only be collected using trawling or dredging and thus are rather poorly known....
    • Apogonichthys
    • Archamia
    • Astrapogon
    • Cercamia
    • Cheilodipterus
    • Coranthus
    • Fowleria
    • Glossamia
    • Holapogon
    • Lachneratus
    • Mionorus
    • Neamia
    • Nectamia
      Nectamia

      Nectamia is a genus of cardinalfishes with nine described species....
    • Phaeoptyx
    • Pterapogon
    • Rhabdamia
    • Siphamia
    • Sphaeramia
      Sphaeramia

      Sphaeramia is a genus of Apogonidae of the family Apogonidae. They are marine fish that live in shallow Coral reef. There are two species:* Pajama cardinalfish, Sphaeramia nematoptera ....
    • Vincentia
  • Subfamily Pseudaminae
    • Gymnapogon
    • Paxton
    • Pseudamia
    • Pseudamiops