Apogonidae

Broadbanded cardinalfish

Ostorhinchus fasciatus

Apogonid Fish beneath Indo West Pacific

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

Ostorhinchus fasciatus, commonly known as the broad-banded cardinalfish, is a marine fish native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans which is a Lessepsian migrant to the eastern Mediterranean through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, it was first recorded off Israel in 2008 and has now reached the southern coast of Turkey. It has a number of vernacular names including barred striped cardinalfish, four-banded soldier-fish, striped cardinalfish and twostripe cardinalfish.