Gymnapogon

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Gymnapogon africanus.jpg

| image_caption = Gymnapogon africanus

| taxon = Gymnapogon

| authority = Regan, 1905

| type_species = Gymnapogon japonicus

| type_species_authority = Regan, 1905{{Cof record|genid=5309|title=Gymnapogon|access-date=18 September 2018}}

| synonyms = *Acanthapogon Fowler, 1938

• Australaphia Whitley, 1936
• Henicichthys Tanaka, 1915

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Gymnapogon is a genus of fish in the family Apogonidae. They are native to the Indo-West Pacific and central Pacific Oceans, where they occur in reefs and nearby habitat types.{{FishBase_genus | genus = Gymnapogon | month = January | year = 2016 }} These species are usually no more than 5 centimeters long and have semitransparent bodies without scales. The genus name is a compound noun formed by combining the Greek gymnos meaning "naked", referring to the lack of scales in the type species, Gymnapogon japonicus, and Apogon, the type genus of the Apogonidae.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/kurtiformes/ | title = Order KURTIFORMES (Nurseryfishes and Cardinalfishes) | accessdate= 17 September 2018 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 31 May 2018}} One species, the B-spot cardinalfish (Gymnapogon urospilotus), is notable for its larvae being rather large, conspicuous and fast-swimming.{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=752 |publisher=Wiley |ISBN=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2018-09-18 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}