Foa (fish)

Genus of fishes

Foa
Foa brachygramma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Kurtiformes
Family: Apogonidae
Subfamily: Apogoninae
Genus: Foa
D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1905
Type species
Fowleria brachygrammus
Jenkins, 1903

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

Species

The recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Foa brachygramma (O. P. Jenkins, 1903) (weed cardinalfish)
  • Foa fo D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905 (weedy cardinalfish)
  • Foa hyalina (H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) (hyaline cardinalfish) [2]
  • Foa leisi T. H. Fraser & J. E. Randall, 2011 [3]
  • Foa longimana M. C. W. Weber, 1909 [2]
  • Foa madagascariensis Petit, 1931
  • Foa nivosa T. H. Fraser & J. E. Randall, 2011 [3]
  • Foa yamba T. H. Fraser, 2014 (Yamba cardinalfish) [2]

References

  1. ^ Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.
  2. ^ a b c Fraser, T.H. (2014): Foa yamba, a new species of cardinalfish (Percomorpha: Apogonidae: Apogonichthyini) from the tidal region of the Clarence River, Australia and redescriptions of the West Pacific Foa longimana and Foa hyalina. Zootaxa, 3878 (2): 167–178.
  3. ^ a b Fraser, T.H. & Randall, J.E. (2011): Two new species of Foa (Apogonidae) from the Pacific Plate, with redescriptions of Foa brachygramma and Foa fo. Zootaxa, 2988: 1-27.
Taxon identifiers
Foa


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