The Banggai

by Jennie Breeze

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The Banggai

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Jennie Breeze

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Photograph - Original Img_0937

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The Banggai cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) is a small tropical cardinalfish family Apogonidae. This attractive fish is popular in the aquarium trade. It is among the relatively few marine fish to have been bred regularly in captivity, but significant numbers are still captured in the wild and it is now an endangered species. The Banggai cardinalfish is composed of isolated populations concentrated around the shallows of 17 large and 10 small islands within the Banggai Archipelago. This species grows up to 3 in total length. It is easily differentiated from all other cardinalfish by its tasseled first dorsal fin, elongate anal and second dorsal fin rays, deeply forked caudal fin, and color pattern consisting of three black bars across the head and body and prominent black anterior edges on the anal and second dorsal fin. The male can be differentiated from the female by a conspicuous enlarged oral cavity, which is apparent only when they are brooding.

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November 5th, 2014

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