Superregnum : Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Gobiaria
Ordo: Kurtiformes
Subordo: Apogonoidei
Familia: Apogonidae
Subfamilia: Apogoninae
Genus: Cercamia
Species: C. cladara – C. eremia – C. melanogaster
Name
Cercamia Randall & Smith, 1988
Type species: Cercamia cladara Randall & Smith, 1988
Etymology: Cercamia is from the Greek Kerkos, tail, and Amia, a Greek fish name that has been applied to apogonid fishes. This name alludes to the elongate tail resulting from the unique vertebral count with one fewer abdominal and one more caudal vertebrae than other cardinalfishes.
References
Randall, J.E. & Smith, C.L. 1988. Two new species and a new genus of cardinalfishes (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from Rapa, South Pacific Ocean. American Museum Novitates 2926: 1–9. PDF Reference page.
Links
Cercamia – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Cercamia species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 08/2021.
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]
References
Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
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.
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.
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