Foa (fish)
Genus of fishes
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Foa is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae, the cardinalfishes, native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
| Foa | |
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| Foa brachygramma | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae |
| Genus: | Foa D. S. Jordan & Evermann, 1905 |
| Type species | |
| Fowleria brachygrammus Jenkins, 1903 | |
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Foa brachygramma (O. P. Jenkins, 1903) (weed cardinalfish)
- Foa fo D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905 (weedy cardinalfish)
- Foa hyalina (H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) (hyaline cardinalfish) [2]
- Foa landoni (Herre, 1934)
- Foa leisi T. H. Fraser & J. E. Randall, 2011 [3]
- Foa longimana M. C. W. Weber, 1909 [2]
- Foa madagascariensis Petit, 1931
- Foa nivosa T. H. Fraser & J. E. Randall, 2011 [3]
- Foa winterbottomi T. H. Fraser, 2020
- Foa yamba T. H. Fraser, 2014 (Yamba cardinalfish) [2]
