{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Late Miocene-present, {{fossil range|7.2|0}} | image = CercamEremia2orangkucing.jpg | image_caption = ''Cercamia eremia'' | taxon = Cercamia | authority = J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988 | type_species = ''Cercamia cladara'' | type_species_authority = Randall & Smith 1988<ref name = CoF>{{Cof record|genid=10024|title=''Cercamia''|access-date=19 September 2018}}</ref> | synonyms = * ''Apogonoides'' <small>Bleeker, 1849</small> }}
'''''Cercamia''''' is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
==Species== The recognized species in this genus are:<ref name=Mabuchi2014>Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/z03846p203f.pdf Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters.] ''Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.''</ref> * ''Cercamia cladara'' <small>J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988</small> * ''Cercamia eremia'' <small>(G. R. Allen, 1987)</small> (glassy cardinalfish) * ''Cercamia melanogaster'' <small>G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Mahardini, 2015</small> (blackbelly cardinalfish) <ref name=Allen2015>{{cite journal | author = Allen, G.R. | author2 = Erdmann, M.V. | author3 = Mahardini, A. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = ''Cercamia melanogaster'', a new species of cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia | journal = Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation | volume = 14 | pages = 57–65 | url = http://www.oceansciencefoundation.org/josf/josf14e.pdf }}</ref> The former genus ''Apogonoides'' is now thought to be synonymous with ''Cercamia''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fraser |first1=Thomas H. |last2=Bogorodsky |first2=Sergey V. |date=2019-04-08 |title=Status of the cardinalfish genus Apogonoides and its type species Apogonoides macassariensis (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) |url=https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4577.3.11 |journal=Zootaxa |language=en |volume=4577 |issue=3 |pages=579–584 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4577.3.11 |issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The extinct species †''Cercamia cottreaui'' <small>Arambourg, 1928</small> (described as ''Apogonoides cottreaui'') is known from the Late Miocene of Algeria.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35943 |access-date=2024-02-29 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gaudant |first=Jean |date=2008 |title=Paléobiodiversité et paléoenvironnements: l'exemple des gisements de poissons téléostéens du Messinien préévaporitique d'Oran et du bassin du Chélif (Algérie) |url=https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/en/periodiques/geodiversitas/30/1/paleobiodiversite-et-paleoenvironnements-l-exemple-des-gisements-de-poissons-teleosteens-du-messinien-preevaporitique-d-oran-et-du-bassin-du-chelif-algerie |journal=Geodiversitas |language=en |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=141–163}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVVQAQAAIAAJ |title=Zoological Record |date=1928 |publisher=J.V. Voorst |language=en}}</ref>
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Category:Apogoninae Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by John Ernest Randall
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