Gourdfin cardinalfish
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Gourdfin cardinalfish, mouth-brooding male |
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| Zoramia leptacantha | ||||||||||||
| ( Bleeker , 1856-57) |
The fine fin cardinalfish ( Zoramia leptacantha ) or neon cardinalfish is a schooling fish from the family of cardinalfish (Apogonidae).
He lives in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific , from Mozambique to the Ryūkyū Islands and Tonga . During the day it hides between branch-shaped hard corals to hunt for plankton at dusk . It often swims in mixed schools with the cardinalfish Archamia fucata and Archamia zosterophora .
Like all cardinalfish, the gourdfin cardinalfish are mouthbrooders . They become six inches long.
literature
- Hans A. Baensch / Robert A. Patzner: Mergus Sea Water Atlas Volume 7 Perciformes (perch-like). Mergus-Verlag, Melle, ISBN 3-88244-107-0 .
Web links
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