Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 8.

Common Names

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Twospot cardinalfish , English , Bahamas

Twospot Cardinalfish , English , Cuba

Twospot cardinalfish , English , USA

Mitsuboshi-tenjikudai , Japanese , Japan

拟斑天竺鲷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

擬斑天竺鯛 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Totó , Portuguese , Brazil

Cardenal de dos puntos , Spanish , Cuba

Cardenal dos puntos , Spanish , Mexico

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Kurtiformes

Family: Apogonidae

Genus: Apogon

Species: Apogon pseudomaculatus Longley, 1932

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951) to New England (Ref. 47377), Massachusetts, USA, Bermuda, and Bahamas to southern Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico. Central Atlantic: St. Helena I., Ascension I. (Ref. 89107, 98447).

Biology

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Commonly found on hard or semi-hard bottoms of the continental shelf (Ref. 9626); in harbors and around pilings and sea walls, out to outer reefs.

Habitat

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associated