Apogonichthyoides timorensis
Creators: name: Fraser, Thomas H.
name: Allen, Gerald R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Apogonidae
Apogonichthyoides
Apogonichthyoides timorensis

description: Key to preserved adult species of the timorensis group
1. Anal fin II,8, second-dorsal fin I,9................................................................................................................................ 2
- Anal fin II,9, second-dorsal fin I,10 or 11(northern Australia) ......... Apogonichthyoides opercularis (Macleay, 1878)
2. Pectoral-fin rays 14....................................................................................................................................................... 3
- Pectoral-fin rays 15–17................................................................................................................................................. 4
3. Two bars on body, one wide blotch on caudal peduncle (Mascarene Plateau)............................................................... .................................................................................................................. Apogonichthyoides gardineri (Regan, 1908)
- Two or three dark bars on body, two faint and one dark bar on caudal peduncle (E Indian to W Pacific) .................... .................................................................................................................... Apogonichthyoides umbratilis new species
4. Large darkish spot on upper opercle just below posttemporal (Coral Sea) .................................................................... ................................................................................................................ Apogonichthyoides chrysurus (Ogilby, 1889)
- No large darkish spot on upper opercle below posttemporal........................................................................................ 5
5. Broad dark cheek mark and/or dark spots on body ...................................................................................................... 6
- Narrow dark cheek mark; body uniform or with one to two faint bars on body (Indo-W. Pacific) ............................... ............................................................................................................ Apogonichthyoides timorensis (Bleeker, 1854b)
6. Broad dark cheek mark ................................................................................................................................................. 7
- No cheek mark, one dark spot per body scale (Mascarene Plateau) ........... Apogonichthyoides regani (Whitley, 1951)
7. Body with small darkish spots, no body bars; second-dorsal fin with small spots (New Caledonia) ............................ ................................................................................................................. Apogonichthyoides euspilotus (Fraser, 2006)
- Body with darkish scale stripes on body, two faint body bars; second-dorsal fin with a large dark spot (N. Australia and New Guinea) .............................................................................. Apogonichthyoides brevicaudatus (Weber, 1909)
description: Published as part of Fraser, Thomas H. & Allen, Gerald R., 2010, Cardinalfish of the genus Apogonichthyoides Smith, 1949 (Apogonidae) with a description of a new species from the West-Pacific region, pp. 40-56 in Zootaxa 2348 on page 45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.193416