Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 9; Vertebrae: 24. This species is distinguished by the following characters: blackish-tipped first-dorsal fin; brownish bars on body absent, faint darker basicaudal mark in adults; a darkish mid-postocular mark just posterior of preopercular edge; 16 pectoral-fin rays without small darkish spot above axil; 10 soft dorsal-fin rays; 9 soft anal fin rays (Ref. 83499).

Common Names

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Pearlycheek cardinalfish , English , Australia

有盖天竺鲷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

有蓋天竺鯛 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Kurtiformes

Family: Apogonidae

Genus: Apogonichthyoides

Species: Apogonichthyoides opercularis (Macleay, 1878)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Central Pacific: endemic to northern Australia.

Biology

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Nocturnal species; occurs inshore (Ref. 7300).

Habitat

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associated