Lepidamia Explained

Lepidamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes.

Species

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

• Lepidamia kalosoma (Bleeker, 1852) (pinstripe cardinalfish)
• Lepidamia multitaeniata (G. Cuvier, 1828) (smallscale cardinalfish)
• Lepidamia natalensis (Gilchrist & W. W. Thompson, 1908)
• Lepidamia omanensis (Gon & Mee, 1995) (Oman cardinalfish)

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.