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Smith's cardinalfish (Jaydia smithi)
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Smith's cardinalfish (Jaydia smithi) specimen
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Apogonidae

Smith's cardinalfish

Jaydia smithi

Fish Reaching Fourteen Point Five Centimeters in the Mediterranean Sea

  • Silver
  • Tropical
  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • East Asia
  • Oceania
  • Southeast Asia
  • Small
  • Tropical fish

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.

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.

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