Banggai cardinalfish
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Banggai cardinalfish can be told apart by their spot patterns.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Banggai cardinalfish
- Scientific name
- Pterapogon kauderni
- Japanese name
- プテラポゴン・カウデルニィ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Kurtiformes
- Family
- Apogonidae
- Genus
- Pterapogon
A parent raises the young inside its mouth, a way of breeding called mouthbrooding.
It guards the eggs in its mouth until they hatch, and eats nothing during that time.
How the Banggai cardinalfish lives
It lives in shallow, calm water among coral reefs and seagrass beds. It mainly eats copepods and also eats other plankton when they are plentiful nearby.
NOAA FisheriesBasic data
- Range
- Indonesia
Where the Banggai cardinalfish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 简体中文
- 考氏鳍竺鲷
- 繁體中文
- 考氏鰭竺鯛
- Español
- Cardenal de Banggai
- Français
- Apogon de Kaudern
- Deutsch
- Banggai-Kardinalbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Cardeal-de-Banggai
- Italiano
- Pesce cardinale di Banggai
- العربية
- سمكة كردينال بنغاي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Capungan banggai
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — プテラポゴン・カウデルニィChecked: 2026-11-04
- NOAA Fisheries — Banggai CardinalfishChecked: 2026-11-06
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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