Biology:Glossamia

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Glossamia
Glossamia aprion.jpg
Glossamia aprion
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Kurtiformes
Family: Apogonidae
Subfamily: Apogoninae
Genus: Glossamia
T. N. Gill, 1863
Type species
Apogon aprion
Richardson, 1842

Glossamia is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Apogonidae. The majority of the species are endemic to New Guinea, but G. aprion is also found in Australia .

Species

The 11 recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Glossamia abo (Herre, 1935)
  • Glossamia aprion (J. Richardson, 1842) (mouth almighty)
  • Glossamia arguni Hadiaty & G. R. Allen, 2011 [2]
  • Glossamia beauforti (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (Beaufort's mouth almighty)
  • Glossamia gjellerupi (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1929) (Gjellerup's mouth almighty)
  • Glossamia heurni (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1929)
  • Glossamia narindica T. R. Roberts, 1978 (slender mouth almighty)
  • Glossamia sandei (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (Sande's mouth almighty)
  • Glossamia timika G. R. Allen, Hortle & Renyaan, 2000 (Timika mouth almighty)
  • Glossamia trifasciata (M. C. W. Weber], 1913) (three-barred mouth almighty)
  • Glossamia wichmanni (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (Wichmann's mouth almighty)

References

  1. 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.
  2. Hadiaty, R.K. & Allen, G.R. (2011): Glossamia arguni, a new species of freshwater cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua Province, Indonesia. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 17 (3): 173-180.

Wikidata ☰ Q671968 entry