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Apogonidae
Short-tooth cardinal
Ostorhinchus apogonoides
Ten Centimeters Apogonid Fish of Japanese Waters
Ostorhinchus is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Apogonidae native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cardinalfishes
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Ostorhinchus
- Maximum length
- 10 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea (Ref. 84159 ), East Africa to the Philippines (Ref. 559 ), north to Miyakejima, Japan (Ref. 559 ) and Taiwan (Ref. 9147 ), south to northern Australia (Ref. 2334 ) and Society Islands (Ref. 76833 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

