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cardinalfish

DEFINITIONS OF: cardinalfish

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n small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters

Types:
Apogon maculatus, flame fish, flamefish
a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters
Astropogon stellatus, conchfish
found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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