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Issue: Vol. 4577 No. 3: 8 Apr. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-04-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.11
Page range: 579–584
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 3

Status of the cardinalfish genus Apogonoides and its type species Apogonoides macassariensis (Percomorpha: Apogonidae)

Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611‒7800 USA, and Mote Marine Laboratory, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, FL 34236‒1096 USA.
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt a.M., Germany. Station of Naturalists, Omsk, Russia.
Pisces Cercamia Indonesia synonymy

Abstract

Apogonoides Bleeker 1849 is identified as the senior synonym of Cercamia Randall & Smith 1988. We present evidence that Cercamia has become well established in the literature. Reversal of priority is proposed for the genus. The type species, macassariensis, is identified with Cercamia eremia (Allen 1987) based on geographic evidence. Reversal of priority is proposed for the species.

 

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