{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Sphaeramia nemanoptera.JPG | image_caption = ''Sphaeramia nematoptera'' | taxon = Sphaeramia | authority = Fowler & B. A. Bean, 1930 | type_species = ''Apogon nematopterus'' | type_species_authority = Bleeker 1856 }}
'''''Sphaeramia''''' is a genus of the Apogonidae (cardinalfishes). They are marine fish that live in shallow tropical reefs in the Indian and Pacific 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> * ''Sphaeramia nematoptera'' <small>(Bleeker, 1856)</small> (pajama cardinalfish) * ''Sphaeramia orbicularis'' <small>(G. Cuvier, 1828)</small> (orbiculate cardinalfish)
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Category:Sphaeramia Category:Apogoninae Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Category:Taxa named by Barton Appler Bean
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