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Suggested reading for Family Apogonidae (cardinalfishes)


Allen, G.R. 1993. Cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of three new species. Revue fr. Aquariol. 20 (1):9-20.

Allen, G.R. and J.E. Randall. 1993. Three new species of cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) from Australia and adjacent seas. Revue fr. Aquariol. 19(4):107-114.

Allen, G.R. and R.H. Kuiter. 1994. Descriptions of two new species of cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) from Malaysia and Indonesia. Rev. fr. Aquariol 21(1-2):19-23.

Allen, G.R., R.H. Kuiter and J.E. Randall. 1994. Descriptions of five new species of cardinalfishes (Apogonidae: Apogon) from Maumere Bay, Flores, Indonesia and surrounding regions. Rev. fr. Aquariol. 21(1-2):27-38.

Allen, G.R. and J.E. Randall. 1994. A new species of cardinalfish (Apogon: Apogonidae) from Arabian Seas. Rev. fr. Aquariol. 21(1-2):24-26.

Allen, G.R. 1995. Apogon virgulatus Allen & Randall, a junior synonym ofApogon cavitiensis (Jordan & Seale). Revue fr. Aquariol. 22(1-2):10.

Allen, G. R. & R. C. Steene. 1995. Notes on the ecology and behavious of the Indonesian cardinalfish (Apogonidae) Pterapogon kauderni Koumans. Revue fr. Aquariol., 22(1-2): 7-9

Allen, Gerald R. 1996. The king of the cardinalfishes. T.F.H. May 1996

Allen, Gerald, R. 1999. Threatened fishes of the world: Pterapogon kaudernis Koumans (1933) (Apogonidae). Jour. MaquaCul. Vol 7:3, 22-23

Bates, Jonathan. 1997. Breeding Pterapogon kauderni. Jour. MaquaCul. Vol 5:1, 16-20

Blaber, S. J. M., D.T. Brewer and A. N. Harris. 1994. Distribution, biomass and community structure of demersal fishes of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 45(3):375-396.

Böhlke, J.E. and J.E. Randall. 1968. A key to the shallow-water west Atlantic cardinalfishes (Apogonidae), with descriptions of five new species. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 120(4):175-206.

Brothers, E.B., D. McB. Williams and P.F. Sale. 1983. Length of larval life in twelve families of fishes at 'One Tree Lagoon', Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Mar. Biol. 76:319-324.

Clarke, Keith, Banggai cardinalfish: Easy to breed?, 1999 Jour. MaquaCul. Vol 7:3, 46-48

Eschmeyer, W.N. 1990. Catalog of the genera of recent fishes. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, USA. 697 p.

Fraser, T. H. 1972. Compararative osteology of the shallow water cardinanl fishes (Perciformes: Apogonodae) with reference to the systematics and evolution of the family. icthyol. Bull. J. L. B. Smith Inst. Icthyol., 34: 1-105

Fraser, T.H. and J.E. Randall. 1976. Two new Indo-west Pacific cardinalfishes of the genus Apogon. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 88(47):503-508.

Fraser, T.H. and G.F. Mayer. 1978. Apogonidae. In W. Fischer (ed.) FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes. West Atlantic (Fishing Area 31). FAO, Rome. Vol. 1. pag.var.

Fraser, T.H. and P.J. Struhsaker. 1991. A new genus and species of cardinalfish (Apogonidae) from the Indo-West Pacific, with a key to apogonine genera. Copeia 1991(3):718-722.

Garnaud, J. 1962. Monographie de l'Apogon méditerranéen: Apogon imberbis (L.) 1758. Bull. Inst. Océanogr. Monaco (1248):83 p.

Gilbert, C.R. and J.C. Tyler. 1997. Apogon robbyi, a new cardinalfish (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the Caribbean Sea. Bull. Mar. Sci. 60(3):764-781.

Goldstein, Robert. 1998. Breeding Banggai cardinalfish. Marine Fish Monthly July 1998

Gon, O. 1986. Apogon bifasciatus Ruppell 1838, a junior synonym of Apogon taeniatus Ehrenberg 1828, and description of Apogon pseudotaeniatus n.sp. (Pisces: Apogonidae). Senckenb. Biol. 67 (1/3): 5-17. Apogonidae. p. 546-561. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Gon, O. 1993. Revision of the cardinalfish genus Cheilodipterus (Perciformes: Apogonidae), with description of five new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes (22):1-59.

Hammer, H. M. 1996. The Banggai cardinal: a strange journey in tropical fish care and breeding. FAMA 19:112 December 1996

Hayashi, M. 1990. Two new cardinalfish (Apogonidae: genus Apogon) from the Indo-west Pacific. Sci.Rep. Yokosuka City Mus. 38: 7-18.

Hayashi, M. and H. Kishimoto. 1983. Fish fauna of Iriomote-Island, Ryukyu Islands. III.-Apogonidae (Apogninae). Sci. Rept. Yokosuka City Mus. 31:15-46.

Herre, A.W.C.T. 1925. A new species of cardinal fish from the Philippines. Philipp. J. Sci. 26(3):341-343.

Ida, H. and J.T. Moyer. 1974. Apogonid fishes of Miyake-jima and Ishigaki-jima, Japan, with description of a new species. Japan. J. Ichthyol. 21(3):113-128.

Koumans, F. P. 1933. On a new genus and species of Apogonidae. Zool. Med. Mus. Leiden 16: 78

Marini, Frank C. 1996. My Notes and Observations on raising and Breeding the Banggai Cardinalfish. Jour. MaquaCul. Vol 4:4

Marini, F. C. & K. F. Clarke. 1999. Captive care and breeding of the mouth brooding Banggai cardinalfish, Pterapogon kauderni. Jour. MaquaCul. Vol 7:3, 24-41

Ojima, Y. and T. Kojima. 1985. Chromosomal polymorphism in Apogonidae fishes. Proc. Jap. Acad., Ser.B. 61(2):79-82.

Randall, J.E. 1998. Review of the cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) of the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of two new species. Aqua 3(1):25-38.

Randall, J.E. and E.A. Lachner. 1986. The status of the Indo-West Pacific cardinalfishes Apogon aroubiensis and A. nigrofasciatus. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 99(1):110-120.

Randall, J.E. and H. Ida. 1993. Pseudamia rubra, a new cardinalfish (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the Ogasawara Islands. Japan. J. Ichthyol. 40(1):11-14.

Randall, J.E. and M. Hayashi. 1990. Apogon selas, a new cardinalfish from the Western Pacific. Japan. J. Ichthyol. 36(4):399-403.

Randall, J.E., E.A. Lachner and T.H. Fraser. 1985. Revision of the Indo-Pacific apogonid fish genus Pseudamia, with descriptions of three new species. Indo-Pac. Fish. (6):23 p.

Randall, J.E., T.H. Fraser and E.A. Lachner. 1990. On the validity of the Indo-Pacific cardinalfishes Apogon aureus (Lacepède) andA. fleurieu (Lacepède), with description of a related new species from the Red Sea. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 103(1):39-62.

Shao, K.-T. and J.-P. Chen. 1986. Ten new records of cardinalfishes from Taiwan, with a synopsis of the family Apogonidae. J. Taiwan Mus. 39(2):61-104.

Smith, J.L.B. 1954. Apogonid fishes of the subfamily Pseudamiinae from southeast Africa. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 12, 7(82):775-795.

Smith, J.L.B. 1961. Fishes of the family Apogonidae of the Western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. (22):373-418.

The sea fishes of southern Africa. 4th ed. Central News Agency, Ltd., Johannesburg. 580 p.

Tortonese, E. 1986. Apogonidae. p. 803-809. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. vol. 2.

van Zwieten, P.A.M. 1995. Biology of the cardinalfish Glossamia gjellerupi (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the Sepik-Ramu River basin, Papua New Guinea. Environ. Biol. Fish. 42:161-179.

Weber, M. and L.F. De Beaufort. 1929. The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. V. Anacanthini, Allotriognathi, Heterostomata, Berycomorphi, Percomorphi: Kuhliidae, Apogonidae, Plesiopidae, Pseudoplesiopidae, Priacanthidae, Centropomidae. E.J. Brill Ltd., Leiden. 458 p.


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