''Archamia bleekeri'', also known as Gon's cardinalfish, is a species of fish in the family

Apogonidae Cardinalfishes are a family, Apogonidae, of ray-finned fishes found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans; they are chiefly marine, but some species are found in brackish water and a few (notably ''Glossamia'') are found in fresh water. A h ...

, the cardinalfishes. It is native to the coastal waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean from Africa to Indonesia and from Taiwan to Queensland,

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. This species occurs in

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s and reefs, and is an inhabitant of

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s, preferring silty areas with muddy or sandy substrates. This species grows to a total length of . This species is the only member of its genus. The other species were moved to the new genus ''

Taeniamia ''Taeniamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Species The 15 recognized species in this genus are:Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014)Revision of the systemat ...

'' in 2013.Fraser, T.H. (2013)
A new genus of cardinalfish (Apogonidae: Percomorpha), redescription of ''Archamia'' and resemblances and relationships with ''Kurtus'' (Kurtidae: Percomorpha).
''Zootaxa, 3714 (1): 1–63.''Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014)
Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters.
''Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.''

References

Apogoninae Fish described in 1859 Monotypic marine fish genera Taxa named by Theodore Gill {{ray-finned fish-stub