Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Apogonidae > Ostorhinchus > Ostorhinchus doederleini

Ostorhinchus doederleini (Doederlein's cardinalfish; Fourline cardinalfish)

Synonyms: Apogon doderleini; Apogon doederleini
Language: Japanese; Korean; Mandarin Chinese; Russian; Tagalog; Vietnamese

Wikipedia Abstract

Ostorhinchus doederleini is a species of fish in the cardinalfish family, also known by the common names Doederlein's cardinalfish and fourline cardinalfish. In Japanese it is called osuji-ishimochi. It is native to subtropical regions of the western Pacific Ocean, its distribution extending from Japan to Taiwan and Australia to New Caledonia and the Kermadec Islands. This fish lives in rocky habitat types near the shore, such as ledges. It is nocturnal. During the day it hides in caves and rock crevices. It feeds on invertebrates, especially gammarid amphipods.
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Attributes

Brood Dispersal [1]  On/In self

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Shoalwater and Corio Bays Area Ramsar Site   Queensland, Australia

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Helicometra fasciata[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1"Filial cannibalism by mouthbrooding males of the cardinal fish, Apogon doederleini, in relation to their physical condition", Noboru Okuda and Yasunobu Yanagisawa, Environmental Biology of Fishes Volume 45, Number 4 (1996), 397-404
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0