Ostorhinchus sealei

Ostorhinchus sealei, Seale's cardinalfish or the cheek-barred cardinalfish, is a species of ray-finned fish, a cardinalfish, from the family Apogonidae. It is an Indo-Pacific species which ranges from Malaysia east to the Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan and south to northwestern Australia, as well as Palau in Micronesia.[2] It is an uncommon species which occurs among branching corals in the sheltered lagoons protected by reefs. It can be found in small to large aggregations low in the water over the reef. It is infrequent below depths of 10 metres (33 ft). They are mouthbrooders which form pairs to mate.[2] During the day thse fish shelter in the reef and they emerge at night to feed on zooplankton and benthic invertebrates.[1] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist Alvin Seale (1871-1958).[3]

Ostorhinchus sealei

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Kurtiformes
Family: Apogonidae
Genus: Ostorhinchus
Species:
O. sealei
Binomial name
Ostorhinchus sealei
(Fowler, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Amia sealei Fowler, 1918
  • Apogon sealei (Fowler, 1918)

References
  1. Gon, O. (2010). "Apogon sealei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T154678A4604440. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154678A4604440.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Ostorhinchus sealei" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2018). "Order Kurtiformes (Nurseryfishes and Cardinalfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
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