Description

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A small, stubby, plain pale red cardinal fish with a smudgy bar (sometimes tiny) on caudal peduncle.

Common Names

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Sawcheek cardinalfish , English , Bahamas

Sawcheek Cardinalfish , English , Cuba

Sawcheek cardinalfish , English , USA

鋸頰天竺鯛 , Mandarin Chinese , China

锯颊天竺鲷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Cardenal Espinoso , Spanish , Cuba

Cardenal pálido , Spanish , Venezuela

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Kurtiformes

Family: Apogonidae

Genus: Apogon

Species: Apogon quadrisquamatus Longley, 1934

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Atlantic: southern Florida, USA and Bahamas to São Paulo, Brazil (Ref. 57756).

Biology

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Found on coral, sand, or gravel bottoms. Sometimes associates with sea anemones, possibly as shelter from predators; it also lives in tubular sponges (Ref. 26938, 45560).

Habitat

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associated