Cercamia Explained

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:^[1]

• 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) ^[2]

The former genus Apogonoides is now thought to be synonymous with Cercamia.^[3] The extinct species C. cottreaci (described as Apogonoides cottreaci) is known from the Late Miocene of Algeria.^[4]

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Allen, G.R. . Erdmann, M.V. . Mahardini, A. . amp . 2015 . Cercamia melanogaster, a new species of cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia . Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation . 14 . 57–65 .
3. Fraser . Thomas H. . Bogorodsky . Sergey V. . 2019-04-08 . Status of the cardinalfish genus Apogonoides and its type species Apogonoides macassariensis (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) . Zootaxa . en . 4577 . 3 . 579–584 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.11 . 1175-5334.
4. Web site: PBDB . 2024-02-29 . paleobiodb.org.