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Apogon bandanensis

Three-saddle Cardinalfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Three-saddle Cardinalfish, Bigeye Cardinalfish

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Indonesia - Samoa - Cooks; n. to s.Japan; s. to GBR

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, reef-flat and outer reef slope; in branching corals

KEY FEATURES: To 8cmSL. Dark grey with some irridescent blue; tail base with wide irridescent blue saddle anteriorly, and wide black band posteriorly; Tail clear. Fins clear, except both Dorsals have dark anterior spines.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Grey Cardinalfish (Apogon fuscus, e.Africa - Tuamotu) and Guam Cardinalfish (Apogon guamensis, e.Africa - Samoa) both have dark saddle on taibase (vs. wide black band).

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Apogon bandanensis Bleeker, 1854
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; APOGONIDAE, Apogoninae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: video, Papua reef-flat, c.2003, Sven Afsenius with ID as Apogon bandenensis, 5/2005 G.McCormack ID confirms Apogon bandenensis as used by Lieske & Meyers (1996) because video specimen has wide black band on tailbase, bar below eye is not clear in video, see under "similar species".

References:
text p.120 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate p120/4a Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.139QQ Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
plate 36-08 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 32-10 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 251 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zB05a, zM06a, zD05a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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