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Frail cardinalfish (Cercamia cladara)
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Frail cardinalfish (Cercamia cladara) specimen
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Apogonidae

Frail cardinalfish

Cercamia cladara

Red spots and crosshatching pattern

  • Tropical
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Pacific Ocean
  • East Asia
  • Oceania
  • Southeast Asia
  • Elongated
  • Compressed cross-section
  • Small
  • Tropical fish

Frail cardinalfish is a marine fish found around Western Pacific. It inhabits reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 4.5 cm.

Maximum length
4.5 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
elongated
Distribution
Western Pacific: from the Chesterfield Island (Coral Sea) and Tonga, east to French Polynesia (Ref. 125402 ). Reported from photos from Japan, Indonesia (Bali) and the Philippines.

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