Cercamia

Cercamia Temporal range: Late Miocene-present, 7.2–0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Cercamia eremia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Apogonidae
Subfamily:	Apogoninae
Genus:	Cercamia J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
Type species
Cercamia cladara Randall & Smith 1988 [1]
Synonyms
ApogonoidesBleeker, 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: ^[2]

• Cercamia cladara J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
• Cercamia eremia (G. R. Allen, 1987) (glassy cardinalfish)
• Cercamia melanogaster G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Mahardini, 2015 (blackbelly cardinalfish) ^[3]

The former genus Apogonoides is now thought to be synonymous with Cercamia. ^[4] The extinct species C. cottreaci (described as Apogonoides cottreaci) is known from the Late Miocene of Algeria. ^[5]

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 19 September 2018.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.