Genus Archamia Gill, 1863

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• Archamia Gill, T.N. 1863. Catalogue of the fishes of lower California, in the Smithsonian Institution, collected by Mr. J. Xantus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 15(2): 80-88 [81].

  Type species:

   Apogon bleekeri Günther, 1859 by monotypy.

 

Introduction

Most species previously placed in this genus have been moved to the genus Taeniamia Fraser, 2013. Only one species, Archamia bleekeri remains in the genus.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls.

Fraser, T.H. 2013. A new genus of cardinalfish (Apogonidae: Percomorpha), redescription of Archamia and resemblances and relationships with Kurtus (Kurtidae: Percomorpha). Zootaxa 3714(1): 1–63

Gon, O. & Randall, J.E. 2003. Revision of the Indo-Pacific cardinalfish genus Archamia (Perciformes: Apogonidae), with description of a new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes 35: 1-49

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

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Dec-2012		12-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED