Foa (fish) explained

Foa is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes, native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:^[1]

• Foa brachygramma (O. P. Jenkins, 1903) (weed cardinalfish)
• Foa fo D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905 (weedy cardinalfish)
• Foa hyalina (H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) (hyaline cardinalfish)
• Foa leisi T. H. Fraser & J. E. Randall, 2011 ^[2]
• Foa longimana M. C. W. Weber, 1909
• Foa madagascariensis Petit, 1931
• Foa nivosa T. H. Fraser & J. E. Randall, 2011 ^[2]
• Foa yamba T. H. Fraser, 2014 (Yamba cardinalfish) ^[3]

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. Fraser, T.H. & Randall, J.E. (2011): Two new species of Foa (Apogonidae) from the Pacific Plate, with redescriptions of Foa brachygramma and Foa fo. Zootaxa, 2988: 1-27.
3. Fraser, T.H. (2014): Foa yamba, a new species of cardinalfish (Percomorpha: Apogonidae: Apogonichthyini) from the tidal region of the Clarence River, Australia and redescriptions of the West Pacific Foa longimana and Foa hyalina. Zootaxa, 3878 (2): 167–178.