Photo: Derek Keats · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 14 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, corals
The cardinalfish is a small red fish that hides by day in caves. In cardinalfish, the male keeps the eggs in his mouth until they hatch.
Did you know?
In Tahitian: ʻupaparu.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Apogon cardinal.
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