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Apogonidae
Smith's cardinalfish
Jaydia smithi
Fish Reaching Fourteen Point Five Centimeters in the Mediterranean Sea
Jaydia smithi, Smith's cardinalfish, is a species of ray-finned fish from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, a member of the family Apogonidae. It has colonised the eastern Mediterranean Sea by way of the Suez Canal since 2007.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cardinalfishes
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Jaydia
- Maximum length
- 14.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to the Marshall Islands, north to southern China and southern Taiwan, south to Bali, Indonesia.

