Yellowlined Cardinalfish, Ostorhinchus chrysotaenia (Bleeker 1851)

Other Names: High-fin Cardinal, Yellow-lined Cardinalfish

A Yellowlined Cardinalfish, Ostorhinchus chrysotaenia, in Lighthouse Ba,y Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, June 2020. Source: Alex Hoschke / iNaturalist.org. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial

Summary:

A yellow cardinalfish with faint dusky stripes, sometimes a dark spot on the caudal peduncle, and a tall pointed second dorsal fin. Juveniles are distinctly striped.

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Bray, D.J. 2020, Ostorhinchus chrysotaenia in Fishes of Australia, accessed 10 Sep 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4618

Yellowlined Cardinalfish, Ostorhinchus chrysotaenia (Bleeker 1851)

More Info

Distribution	Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, north to Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the East-Indo-west Pacific: Eastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Indonesia east to the Solomon Islands, north to Japan, south to Australia. Inhabits inshore reefs, sheltering in crevices on reef flats and coral slopes during the day.
Features	Dorsal VII + I, 9; Anal fin II, 8.
Species Citation	Apogon chrysotaenia Bleeker 1851, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 2: 168. Type locality: Java, Indonesia.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2020
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Yellowlined Cardinalfish, Ostorhinchus chrysotaenia (Bleeker 1851)

References

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

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

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 Apogon chrysotaenia)

Bleeker, P. 1851. Nieuwe bijdrage tot de kennis der Percoidei, Scleroparei, Sciaenoidei, Maenoidei, Chaetodontoidei en Scomberoidei van den Soenda-Molukschen Archipel. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 2: 163-179 See ref at BHL

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 Apogon chrysotaenia)

Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls. (as Apogon chrysotaenia)

Kuiter, R.H. & Kozawa, T. 2019. Cardinalfishes of the world. New ed. Seaford, Victoria : Aquatic Photographics, and Okazaki, Aichi, Japan: Anthias, Nexus: 1-198.

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