Archamia

Archamia bleekeri, also known as Gon's cardinalfish, is a species of fish in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. It is native to the coastal waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean from Africa to Indonesia and from Taiwan to Queensland, Australia. This species occurs in mangrove forests and reefs, and is an inhabitant of shipwrecks, preferring silty areas with muddy or sandy substrates. This species grows to a total length of 10 cm (3.9 in).[1] This species is the only member of its genus. The other species were moved to the new genus Taeniamia in 2013.[2][3]

For species that have been moved out of genus Archamia, see Archamia (fish).

Archamia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Kurtiformes
Family: Apogonidae
Subfamily: Apogoninae
Genus: Archamia
T. N. Gill, 1863
Species:
A. bleekeri
Binomial name
Archamia bleekeri
(Günther, 1859)
Synonyms

Apogon bleekeri Günther, 1859
Apogon notata Day, 1868
Archamia goni Chen & Shao, 1993
Kurtamia bykhovskyi Prokofiev, 2006

References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Archamia bleekeri" in FishBase. August 2015 version.
  2. Fraser, T.H. (2013): A new genus of cardinalfish (Apogonidae: Percomorpha), redescription of Archamia and resemblances and relationships with Kurtus (Kurtidae: Percomorpha). Zootaxa, 3714 (1): 1–63.
  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. Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.


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