Taeniamia
Taeniamia is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
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| Illustration of Lea's Cardinalfish, Taeniamia leai, from Norfolk Island. Source: Waite 1916 Transactions Royal Society of South Australia 40: 455, Pl. 45 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Kurtiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae |
| Genus: | Taeniamia T. H. Fraser, 2013[1] |
| Type species | |
| Archamia leai Waite, 1916[2] | |
Species
The 15 recognized species in this genus are:[3]
- Taeniamia ataenia (J. E. Randall & Satapoomin, 1999) (barless cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia biguttata (Lachner, 1951) (twinspot cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia bilineata (Gon & J. E. Randall, 1995)
- Taeniamia buruensis (Bleeker, 1856) (Buru cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia flavofasciata (Gon & J. E. Randall, 2003)
- Taeniamia fucata (Cantor, 1849) (orange-lined cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia kagoshimanus (Döderlein (de), 1883)
- Taeniamia leai (Waite, 1916) (Lea's cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia lineolata (G. Cuvier, 1828) (shimmering cardinal)
- Taeniamia macroptera (G. Cuvier, 1828) (dusky-tailed cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia melasma (Lachner & W. R. Taylor, 1960) (blackspot cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia mozambiquensis (J. L. B. Smith, 1961) (Mozambique cardinalfish)
- Taeniamia pallida (Gon & J. E. Randall, 1995)
- Taeniamia sansibaricus (Pfeffer, 1896)
- Taeniamia zosterophora (Bleeker, 1856) (girdled cardinalfish or blackbelted cardinalfish)
FishBase treats T. sansibaricus as synonymous with T. fucata.[4] but T. sansibaricus is recognized as valid by the Catalog of Fishes:[5]
References
- 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.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Taeniamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 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.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Taeniamia fucata" in FishBase. April 2018 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Taeniamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
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