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Cryptic cardinalfish (Apogonichthyoides umbratilis)
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Cryptic cardinalfish (Apogonichthyoides umbratilis) specimen
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Apogonidae

Cryptic cardinalfish

Apogonichthyoides umbratilis

Five brown bars along body

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

Cryptic cardinalfish is known from East Indian to Western Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.

Maximum length
4.1 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
deep_bodied
Distribution
East Indian to Western Pacific: Western Australia, Indonesia, Brunei and Palau.

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