Taeniamia

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Taeniamia
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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
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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]

Taeniamia is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Species

The 15 recognized species in this genus are: [3]

FishBase treats T. sansibaricus as synonymous with T. fucata. [4] but T. sansibaricus is recognized as valid by the Catalog of Fishes: [5]

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<i>Taeniamia fucata</i> Species of fish

Taeniamia fucata, commonly known as the orange-lined- or painted cardinalfish, is a marine fish native to reefs from northern Australia and New Guinea, across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa, and Pacific Ocean to Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and the Ryukyu Islands. It was known as Archamia fucata until 2013. FishBase treats T. sansibaricus as synonymous with T. fucata. but T. sansibaricus is recognised as valid by the Catalog of Fishes:

References

  1. 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.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Taeniamia". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  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.
  4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Taeniamia fucata" in FishBase . April 2018 version.
  5. 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.