apogon maculatus

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   a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters

   Synonymsflame fishflamefish

   Broadercardinalfish

Questions about apogon maculatus

What does apogon maculatus mean?

apogon maculatus means "a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters".

What is another word for apogon maculatus?

Close synonyms include flame fish, flamefish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is apogon maculatus a common word?

apogon maculatus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.