Bracelet Cardinalfish, Nectamia viria Fraser 2008
A Bracelet Cardinalfish, Nectamia viria, in Yule Passage, Northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, August 2015. Source: Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A cardinalfish with a narrow triangular dark bar across the cheek, a dark saddle (sometimes indistinct) below the second dorsal fin, usually a few indistinct pale bars on the side, a broad dark band around the caudal peduncle connected above and below to the caudal fin, and no dark margins along the outer caudal-fin lobes.
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Bray, D.J. 2014, Nectamia viria in Fishes of Australia, accessed 21 Mar 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1757
Bracelet Cardinalfish, Nectamia viria Fraser 2008
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Distribution |
Recorded from the northern Great Barrier Reef to Moreton Bay, Queensland. Elsewhere, the species occurs in the Western Pacific: Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines to Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin VIII, 9; Anal fin II, 8; Vertebrae 24. |
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Colour |
Head, body and fins without stripes; head with dark narrow triangular cheek mark from eye to angle of preopercle, lachrymal and anterior infraorbital with yellowish mark, iris brownish with white inner ring; head and body bronze to brownish background occasionally with a few faint pale bars, saddle under second dorsal fin; caudal peduncle with a complete dark caudal-peduncle mark, the bar less intense below pored lateral-line scales, pale region just anterior to peduncle mark not reaching to posterior base of second dorsal fin but reaching anal fin; first and second dorsal fins uniform dusky, pectoral pelvic and caudal fins pale (Fraser 2008). |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin 'viria' meaning bracelet, in reference to the band around the caudal peduncle. |
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Species Citation |
Nectamia viria Fraser 2008, Zootaxa 1691: 41, Figs. 3B, 6C, 7, 16, 18. Type locality: Sangay Siapo Islands, Philippine Islands. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2014 |
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Resources |
Bracelet Cardinalfish, Nectamia viria Fraser 2008
References
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Fraser, T.H. 2008. Cardinalfishes of the genus Nectamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from the Indo-Pacific region with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 1691: 1-52. Abstract
Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3)
Mabuchi, K., T.H. Fraser, H. Song, Y. Azuma & M. Nishida. 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. PDF Open acess
