Species Nectamia fusca (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

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External Links

• Apogon fuscus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1825. Chapter 9. Poissons. pp. 329-401 pls 43-65 in Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, entrepris par orde du Roi, sous le Ministère et conformément aux instructions de S. Exc. M. le Vicomte de Boucharge, secrétaire d'État au Département de la Marine exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendent les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820; publié sous les auspices de S.E.M. le Conte Corbière, secrétaire d'État de l'Intérieur, pour la partie historique et les sciences naturelles, et de S.E.M. le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, Secrétaire d'État de la Marine et des Colonies, pour la partie nautique; par M. Louis Freycinet, etc. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 + atlas iv 712 pp. [published in parts Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages. Part I. Amérique meridionale; Indes orientales; Pôle Sud (Astrolabe and Zélée); La Bonite; La Coquille; and L'Uranie et La Physcienne. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(7): 388–392 [392]] [345].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP 8682 (also a syntype of Apogon guamensis), Guam.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Fraser, T.H. 2008. Cardinalfishes of the genus Nectamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from the Indo-Pacific region with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 1691: 1-52 [15].
• Apogon guamensis Valenciennes, A. 1832. Descriptions de plusieurs espèces nouvelles de poissons du genre Apogon. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 1: 51-60 fig. 4 [54].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 8767, Guam; MNHP 8682, Guam.
• Apogon nubilus Garman, S. 1903. Some fishes from Australasia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 39(8): 229-241 pls 1-5 [229, pl. 1(1)].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 28315, Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fraser, T.H. 2008. Cardinalfishes of the genus Nectamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from the Indo-Pacific region with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 1691: 1-52 [15]

 

Generic Combinations

• Nectamia fusca (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). —
  Jordan, D.S. 1917. Notes on Glossamia and related genera of cardinal fishes. Copeia 1917(44): 46-47 [47] (changed combination as type of genus Nectamia)
  Fraser, T.H. 2008. Cardinalfishes of the genus Nectamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from the Indo-Pacific region with descriptions of four new species. Zootaxa 1691: 1-52 (changed combination cited and genus removed from synonymy)
• Ostorhinchus fusca (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). —
  Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp. [205] (changed combination; image probably of a different species)

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Apogon nubilis Garman, 1903 [misspelling of species name]. —
  Russell, B.C. 1983. Annotated checklist of the coral reef fishes in the Capricorn-Bunker group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Special Publication Series 1: 1-184 figs 1-2 [50]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Flinders Island (14°11'S 144°16'E) to One Tree Is. (23°30'S), QLD, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Ashmore and Cartier Islands; tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, coral reef, inshore, marine, nocturnal.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [385]

Fraser, T.H., Randall, J.E. & Lachner, E.A. 1999. A review of the Red Sea cardinalfishes of the Apogon bandanensis complex, with a description of a new species. Special Publication J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology 63: 1-13 [9] (as Apogon guamensis)

Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. 2006. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing : Australia Part 1, pp. xxiv 1–670; Part 2, pp. xxi 671–1472; Part 3, pp. xxi 1473–2178. [1089] (as Apogon guamensis)

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 [202]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [173]

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs. [142] (as Apogon guamensis)

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. [142] (as Apogon guamensis)

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [43] (957)

 

Common Name References

Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls. [63] (Dusky Cardinal)

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs. [142] (Guam Cardinalfish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Ghost Cardinalfish, Dusky Cardinalfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
09-Jan-2014	APOGONIDAE	23-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
12-Dec-2012		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED