Lepidamia

Lepidamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes.

Lepidamia
Lepidamia kalasoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Kurtiformes
Family: Apogonidae
Subfamily: Apogoninae
Genus: Lepidamia
T. N. Gill, 1863
Type species
Apogon kalosoma
Bleeker, 1852[1]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]

  • Lepidamia kalosoma (Bleeker, 1852) (pinstripe cardinalfish)
  • Lepidamia multitaeniata (G. Cuvier, 1828) (smallscale cardinalfish)
  • Lepidamia natalensis (Gilchrist & W. W. Thompson, 1908)
  • Lepidamia omanensis (Gon & Mee, 1995) (Oman cardinalfish)

References

  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Lepidamia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. 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.


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