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IllustrationSpecklehead cardinalfish
Apogonichthyoides maculipinnis
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Specklehead cardinalfish
- Scientific
- Apogonichthyoides maculipinnis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Reef fish
- Maximum size
- Up to about 4 cm (standard length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 10 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A tiny brownish cardinalfish with brown spots on the head, a dark wedge-shaped bar below the eye and rows of small brown dots along the body. It is known from only a couple of specimens found under coral rubble on sand at about 40 m.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Apogonichthyoides-maculipinnis.html
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.