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Peeper Cardinalfish
Neamia articycla Fraser & Allen, 2006
Above and below: Peeper Cardinalfish caught at a depth of 25 m, between Lizard Island and the outer barrier reef, Queensland, Jan 2001. (AMS I.40666-012 Paratype). Photo: B. Carson-Ewart © Australian Museum. View larger image.
Neamia articycla Paratypes - AMS I.40666-013. Photo: B. Carson-Ewart © Australian Museum. View larger image.
The Peeper Cardinalfish has seven visible dorsal fin spines and an eighth hidden by skin. In life the species is reddish to brownish. There is a circular spot on the operculum enclosed within a pale area.
The longest specimen known is 35.5 mm standard length.
The species lives at depths between 10 m and 40 m, in association with the calcareous alga Halimeda, or calcareous rubble. It has also been collected in association with the pocilloporid coral, Seriatopora hystrix.
The Peeper Cardinalfish occurs in tropical marine waters of the Western Pacific, from Sumatra to Fiji and the Philippines south to eastern Australia.
In Australia it is known from the northern Great Barrier Reef lagoon between Lizard Island and the outer Barrier Reef.
View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
Related links
- Halimeda, Hot beds of Biodiversity!
- View the family Apogonidae list
- View the Cardinalfishes list
Further reading
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Fraser, T.H. & G.R. Allen, 2006. A new species of Neamia (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the West Pacific Ocean. Memoirs of the Museum Victoria. (view pdf, 712k)
