Cercamia

Cercamia
Temporal range: Late Miocene-present, 7.2–0 Ma
Cercamia eremia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Apogonidae
Subfamily: Apogoninae
Genus: Cercamia
J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
Type species
Cercamia cladara
Randall & Smith 1988
Synonyms
  • Apogonoides Bleeker, 1849

Cercamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:

The former genus Apogonoides is now thought to be synonymous with Cercamia. The extinct species †Cercamia cottreaui Arambourg, 1928 (described as Apogonoides cottreaui) is known from the Late Miocene of Algeria.

References

  1. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
  3. ↑ 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" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3846 (2): 151–203.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Apogonoides Bleeker 1849 (perch-like fish)". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  7. ↑ Gaudant, Jean (2008). "Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements: l'exemple des gisements de poissons téléostéens du Messinien préévaporitique d'Oran et du bassin du Chélif (Algérie)". Geodiversitas (in French). 30 (1): 141–163.
  8. ↑ Zoological Record. J.V. Voorst. 1928.