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IllustrationMulti-barred cardinalfish
Nectamia luxuria
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Multi-barred cardinalfish
- Scientific
- Nectamia luxuria
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Reef fish
- Maximum size
- Up to about 7.7 cm (standard length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 0 to 11 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2023
Description
A small cardinalfish with many pale bars on the body, an incomplete dark bar on the tail base and dark tail margins, reaching about 8 cm. It forms aggregations among branching corals.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Nectamia-luxuria.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:NectamLuzuriaChaloklumDiving.gif
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.