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Marbled cardinalfish (Fowleria marmorata)
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Apogonidae

Marbled cardinalfish

Fowleria marmorata

Black eye spot on gill cover

  • Tropical
  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Oceania
  • Deep-bodied
  • Compressed cross-section
  • Small
  • Tropical fish

Marbled cardinalfish is known around Indo-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and records give a maximum length of 7.5 cm.

Maximum length
7.5 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
deep_bodied
Distribution
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to the Line, Marquesan, and Society islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef; throughout Micronesia.

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