cardinalfish


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Noun1.cardinalfish - small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Apogonidae, family Apogonidae - bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth
Apogon maculatus, flame fish, flamefish - a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters
Astropogon stellatus, conchfish - found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch
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Growth estimates of cardinalfish (Epigonus crassicaudus) based on scale mixtures of skew-normal distributions.
Scientists who have observed and studied cardinalfish - a tiny species that inhabits shallow marine habitats, such as coral reefs - know that even when its larvae are dispersed over a distance of several miles, most of them find their way back home.
Review and stock assessment of black cardinalfish (Epigonus telescopus) on the east coast North Island, New Zealand.
Effect of fishing tactics on the standardization of cardinalfish (Epigonus crassicaudus) catch rates in the demersal multispecies fishery off central Chile.
Age structure, growth rates, movement patterns and feeding in a estuarine population of the cardinalfish Apogon rueppellii.
However, studies of Honduran reefs are limited to Clifton & Clifton (1998) who provided a comprehensive list of fish species found on the coral reefs of Honduran archipelago Cayos Cochinos, and Greenfield & Johnson (1990a, 1990b) who performed multiple habitat surveys focusing on fish from the blennioid and cardinalfish families.
Then she dropped both glowing and dark shrimp into a flume so they were swept past a hungry cardinalfish; the fish ate only the luminescent shrimp.
The Banggai cardinalfish; natural history, conservation, and culture of Pterapogon kauderni.
On moonlit nights with my torch turned off, I've seen lionfish stalking cardinalfish or other plankton pickers, waving their feathery veils to cull one fish from the school, stalking it in mesmerizing slow motion before suddenly and violently extending protrusible jaws, grabbing and suctioning all at once.
Today, aquaculturists are successfully breeding gobies, blennies, cardinalfish, and seahorses--an array of species popular with hobbyists.