Cercamia

Cercamia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes. They are native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Cercamia Temporal range: Late Miocene-present, 7.2–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Cercamia eremia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Apogonidae
Subfamily:	Apogoninae
Genus:	Cercamia J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
Type species
Cercamia cladara Randall & Smith 1988[1]
Synonyms
Apogonoides Bleeker, 1849

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:^[2]

• Cercamia cladara J. E. Randall & C. L. Smith, 1988
• Cercamia eremia (G. R. Allen, 1987) (glassy cardinalfish)
• Cercamia melanogaster G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Mahardini, 2015 (blackbelly cardinalfish) ^[3]

The former genus Apogonoides is now thought to be synonymous with Cercamia.^[4] The extinct species C. cottreaci (described as Apogonoides cottreaci) is known from the Late Miocene of Algeria.^[5]