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Similar cardinalfish (Nectamia similis)
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Apogonidae

Similar cardinalfish

Nectamia similis

Males mouthbrood and release hatched young after seven days

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

Similar cardinalfish is known around Western Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 6.3 cm.

Maximum length
6.3 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
deep_bodied
Distribution
Western Pacific: Indonesia to Micronesia; north to the Philippines.

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