Glossamia
Genus of fishes
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Glossamia is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Apogonidae. The majority of the species are endemic to New Guinea, but G. aprion is also found in Australia.
| Glossamia | |
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| Glossamia aprion | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Apogonidae |
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae |
| Genus: | Glossamia T. N. Gill, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Apogon aprion Richardson, 1842 | |
It is solitary, mostly inhabiting riverside vegetation areas and crevices where rotten wood accumulates, and also lives in shallow wetlands on the edge of lakes. It is a larger species with a similar appearance to Glossamia gjellerupi, but usually the number of stripes of Glossamia gjellerupi is smaller, making the stripes of the fresh handle vertical.
Species
The 11 recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Glossamia abo (Herre, 1935)
- Glossamia aprion (J. Richardson, 1842) (mouth almighty)
- Glossamia arguni Hadiaty & G. R. Allen, 2011 [2]
- Glossamia beauforti (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (Beaufort's mouth almighty)
- Glossamia gjellerupi (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1929) (Gjellerup's mouth almighty)
- Glossamia heurni (M. C. W. Weber & de Beaufort, 1929)
- Glossamia narindica T. R. Roberts, 1978 (slender mouth almighty)
- Glossamia sandei (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (Sande's mouth almighty)
- Glossamia timika G. R. Allen, Hortle & Renyaan, 2000 (Timika mouth almighty)
- Glossamia trifasciata (M. C. W. Weber], 1913) (three-barred mouth almighty)
- Glossamia wichmanni (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (Wichmann's mouth almighty)
