| Cercamia Temporal range: Late Miocene-present,
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| Cercamia eremia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae |
| Genus: | Cercamia J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988 |
| Type species | |
| Cercamia cladara Randall & Smith 19881
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Cercamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:23
- Cercamia cladara J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
- Cercamia eremia (G. R. Allen, 1987) (glassy cardinalfish)
- Cercamia laamu Fraser, Bogorodsky, Mal & Alpermann, 2021
- Cercamia mascarene Fraser, Bogorodsky, Mal & Alpermann, 2021
- Cercamia melanogaster G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Mahardini, 2015 (blackbelly cardinalfish) 4
- Cercamia spio Fraser, Bogorodsky, Mal & Alpermann, 2021
The former genus Apogonoides is now thought to be synonymous with Cercamia.5 The extinct species †Cercamia cottreaui Arambourg, 1928 (described as Apogonoides cottreaui) is known from the Late Miocene of Algeria.678
References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 June 2026.
- 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" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3846 (2): 151–203.
- Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V. & Mahardini, A. (2015). "Cercamia melanogaster, a new species of cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 14: 57–65.
- Fraser, Thomas H.; Bogorodsky, Sergey V. (2019-04-08). "Status of the cardinalfish genus Apogonoides and its type species Apogonoides macassariensis (Percomorpha: Apogonidae)". Zootaxa. 4577 (3): 579–584. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.11. ISSN 1175-5334.
- "Apogonoides Bleeker 1849 (perch-like fish)". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
- Gaudant, Jean (2008). "Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements: l'exemple des gisements de poissons téléostéens du Messinien préévaporitique d'Oran et du bassin du Chélif (Algérie)". Geodiversitas (in French). 30 (1): 141–163.
- Zoological Record. J.V. Voorst. 1928.