Zoramia gilberti
Zoramia gilberti is a Cardinalfish from the Western Central Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 4.2 cm in length.[1] It is found in sheltered bays and lagoons, where it gathers in large aggregations among branching corals, frequently mixed with other cardinalfish species.[2] The specific name honours the American ichthyologist and fisheries biologist Charles H. Gilbert (1859-1928) of Stanford University who was a colleague of Jordan's.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Kurtiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Genus: | Zoramia |
| Species: | Z. gilberti |
| Binomial name | |
| Zoramia gilberti D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905 | |
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Zoramia gilberti" in FishBase. June 2018 version.
- Bray, D.J. (2017). "Zoramia gilberti". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 23 Sep 2018.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (31 May 2018). "Order KURTIFORMES (Nurseryfishes and Cardinalfishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
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