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Apogonidae
Frail cardinalfish
Cercamia cladara
Red spots and crosshatching pattern
Frail cardinalfish is a marine fish found around Western Pacific. It inhabits reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 4.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cardinalfishes
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Cercamia
- 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.

