Sphaeramia nematoptera
Yellow-snouted, polka-dotted, and easy to miss: find pajama cardinalfish hovering in Palau's Koror & Malakal and Indonesia's Sulawesi reefs year-round.
A stocky little fish barely bigger than a thumb, with a yellow-orange snout, a dark vertical band through the eye, and a rear half peppered with reddish-brown spots on a silvery-white background. That spotted
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Reef neighbours a diver could mistake it for. Use the identification notes above to tell them apart.
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Mapping where Pajama Cardinalfish is logged…
Site and sighting data is aggregated from diver logs, iNaturalist and GBIF. For taxonomy and conservation status:
Iridescent Cardinalfish
1,784 sites
