Bigtooth cardinalfish

Bigtooth cardinalfish
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Apogonidae
Subfamily:	Apogoninae
Genus:	Paroncheilus [1] J. L. B. Smith, 1964
Species:	P. affinis
Binomial name
Paroncheilus affinis (Poey, 1875)
Synonyms
Apogon affinis Poey, 1875 Chilodipterus affinis Poey, 1875 Paroncheilus stauchi Smith, 1964

Paroncheilus affinis also known as the Bigtooth cardinalfish is a species of marine fish in the Apogonidae family and the only member of its genus. It is found around the Central Atlantic. It is pale orange in colour.

Range

The bigtooth cardinalfish lives in the Western Central Atlantic. Specifically it is found in southern Florida, USA and from the Bahamas to Venezuela. It has been sighted as far as Suriname. This species also is found in the Eastern Central Atlantic and the Gulf of Guinea and has been reported as far as Cape Verde.^[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. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Paroncheilus affinis" in FishBase. August 2015 version.