''Taeniamia fucata'', commonly known as the orange-lined- or painted cardinalfish, is a marine fish native to reefs from northern Australia and New Guinea,
across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of Africa, and Pacific Ocean to Marshall Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and the Ryukyu Islands.
It was known as ''Archamia fucata'' until 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): 001–063. FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. treats ''T. sansibaricus'' as
synonymous
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. For example, in the English language, the words ''begin'', ''start'', ''commence'', and ''initiate'' are all ...
with ''T. fucata''.
but ''T. sansibaricus'' is recognised as valid by the
Catalog of Fishes:
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Fish described in 1849
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