Schooling Cardinalfish, Verulux cypselurus (Weber 1909)

Other Names: Black-nosed Cardinalfish, Swallowtail Cardinalfish

Schooling Cardinalfish, Verulux cypselurus, in the Russell Islands, Solomon Islands. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike

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Schooling Cardinalfish, Verulux cypselurus (Weber 1909)

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Distribution	Off northwest Western Australia, Ashmore and Cartier reefs, Timor Sea, the northern Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere, the species is widespread in the tropical Indo-west Pacific. Often occurs around lagoon patch reefs, forming large schools that disperse at night to feed on plankton.
Species Citation	Rhabdamia cypselurus Weber 1909, Fische der Siboga-Expedition 31(2): 167. Type locality: Ceram, Indonesia.
Author	Bray, D.J.
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Schooling Cardinalfish, Verulux cypselurus (Weber 1909)

References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. (as Rhabdamia cypselurus)

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. (as Rhabdamia cypselurus)

Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls. (as Rhabdamia cypselurus)

Hutchins, J.B. 1994. A survey of the nearshore reef fish fauna of Western Australia's west and south coasts — The Leeuwin Province. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 46: 1-66 figs 1-6 (as Rhabdamia cypselurus)

Kuiter, R.H. 1996. Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia. A comprehensive reference for divers and fishermen. Sydney, NSW, Australia : New Holland Publishers xvii, 434 pp. (as Rhabdamia cypselurus)

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.

Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp. (as Rhabdamia cypselura)

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs. (as Rhabdamia cypselurus)

Weber, M. 1909. Note IV. Diagnosen neuer Fische der Siboga-Expedition. Notes from the Leyden Museum 31(2): 143-169.