cardinalfish

Definitions of cardinalfish
  1. noun
    small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
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    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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