Cercamia
Cercamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
| Cercamia | |
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| Cercamia eremia | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota | 
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Actinopterygii | 
| Order: | Kurtiformes | 
| Family: | Apogonidae | 
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae | 
| Genus: | Cercamia J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988  | 
| Type species | |
| Cercamia cladara Randall & Smith 1988[1]  | |
Species
    
The recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Cercamia cladara J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
 - Cercamia eremia (G. R. Allen, 1987) (glassy cardinalfish)
 - Cercamia melanogaster G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Mahardini, 2015 (blackbelly cardinalfish) [3]
 
References
    
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cercamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
 - Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.
 - Allen, G.R.; Erdmann, M.V. & Mahardini, A. (2015). "Cercamia melanogaster, a new species of cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 14: 57–65.
 
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