Barred Striped Cardinalfish

Ostorhinchus fasciatus

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth17–115 m
Water temperature19–29 °C
Best monthsAugust, October, and November
How commonCommon

About this species

Ostorhinchus fasciatus, commonly known as the broad-banded cardinalfish, is a marine fish native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans which is a Lessepsian migrant to the eastern Mediterranean through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, it was first recorded off Israel in 2008 and has now reached the southern coast of Turkey. It has a number of vernacular names including barred striped cardinalfish, four-banded soldier-fish, striped cardinalfish and twostripe cardinalfish.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Ostorhinchus fasciatus”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 32 records
February: 58 records
March: 44 records
April: 53 records
May: 52 records
June: 67 records
July: 41 records
August: 73 records
September: 49 records
October: 98 records
November: 80 records
December: 46 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 17–115 m · Deepest record: 151.5 m

0–10 m: 19 records
10–20 m: 60 records
20–30 m: 148 records
30–40 m: 52 records
40–50 m: 29 records
50–60 m: 37 records
60–70 m: 27 records
70–80 m: 10 records
80–90 m: 11 records
90–100 m: 8 records
100–110 m: 13 records
110+ m: 60 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 19–29 °C

18–20 °C: 1 records
20–22 °C: 8 records
22–24 °C: 38 records
24–26 °C: 9 records
26–28 °C: 38 records
28–30 °C: 49 records

Names and classification

English: Barred Striped Cardinalfish, Bar-striped Cardinalfish, broadbanded cardinalfish, Broad-banded Cardinalfish, Broadbanded cardinalfish, Twostripe cardinalfish, Four-banded Cardinalfish, Four-banded Soldier-fish, Fourlined Cardinalfish, Fourstripe Cardinalfish, Striped Cardinalfish, Twostripe Cardinalfish

Names in 3 more languages

Japanese: Furaiishimochi, フウライイシモチ
Thai: ปลาอมไข่แดงลายแถบ
Simplified Chinese: 大目側仔, 大面側仔, 寬條鸚天竺鯛, 寬條鸚竺鯛

Other scientific names: Amia elizabethae, Amia quadrifasciata, Apogon elizabethae, Apogon evanidus, Apogon fasciatus, Apogon monogramma, Apogonichthyes quadrifasciatus, Apogonicthyes quadrifasciatus, Mullus fasciatus

Similar species

Bandtail Cardinal
Ostorhinchus aureus
Blue-lined Cardinalfish
Ostorhinchus cyanosoma
Blackbanded Soldierfish
Ostorhinchus nigrofasciatus
Broadstriped Cardinalfish
Ostorhinchus angustatus
Blue-eye Cardinalfish
Ostorhinchus compressus
Blackbanded Cardinal
Ostorhinchus cookii

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
1,665 open-data records from 1828 to 2021.

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