Gilbert's Cardinalfish, Zoramia gilberti (Jordan & Seale 1905)
Gilbert's Cardinalfish, Zoramia gilberti, from Madang, Papua, New Guinea. Source: Gerald R. Allen / FishBase. License: All rights reserved
Summary:
A translucent pale brown cardinalfish with blue spots on the head and anterior part of the body, a silvery bluish belly, and a dusky caudal-fin base with a small black spot.
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Bray, D.J. 2017, Zoramia gilberti in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4206
Gilbert's Cardinalfish, Zoramia gilberti (Jordan & Seale 1905)
More Info
Distribution |
Offshore reefs of Western Australia (Scott Reef and Seringatapam Reef), and Ashmore and Cartier reefs, Timor Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the west Pacific : Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea to the Phiippines, east to Palau and Yap. Inhabits sheltered bays and lagoons, forming large aggregations among branching corals, often with other cardinalfish species. |
Species Citation |
Amia gilberti Jordan & Seale 1905, Proc. U. S. Natl Mus. 28(1407): 777, fig. 3. Type locality: Negros, Philippines. |
Author |
Bray, D.J. 2017 |
Resources |
Gilbert's Cardinalfish, Zoramia gilberti (Jordan & Seale 1905)
References
Allen, G.R. 1996. New records of reef and shore fishes from northwestern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 109-112 (as Apogon gilberti)
Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. (as Apogon gilberti)
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Fraser, T.H. & Lachner, E.A. 1985. A revision of the cardinalfish subgenera Pristiapogon and Zoramia (genus Apogon) of the Indo-Pacific region (Teleostei: Apogonidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 412: 1-47. (as Apogon Zoramia gilberti)
Greenfield, D.W., Langston, R.C. & Randall, J.E. 2005. Two new cardinalfishes of the Indo-Pacific fish genus Zoramia (Apogonidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 56(33): 625-637
Jordan, D.S. & Seale, A. 1905. List of fishes collected by Dr Bashford Dean on the island of Negros, Philippines. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28(1407): 769-803 figs 1-20 (as Apogon gilberti)
Lachner, E.A. 1953. Family Apogonidae : cardinal fishes. pp. 412-498 figs 69-84 pls 33-43 in Schultz, L.P., Herald, E.S., Lachner, E.A., Welander, A.D. & Woods, L.P. (eds) Fishes of the Marshall and Marianas Islands. Vol. 1. Families Asymmetrontidae through Siganidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 202(1): 1-685, figs 1-90, pls 1-74 (as Apogon gilberti)
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