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Created 3/26/2018

Family Apogonidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus

Wakatobi, Indonesia

FIVELINED CARDINALFISH

Common as aggregations in shallow reef crevices.  Black spot surrounded by yellow on caudal peduncle is centered on midbody stripe; slightly above in Cheilodipterus iostigmus.  Attains 5 inches.  Red Sea to Japan and French Polynesia, excluding Hawai'i.