Jaydia is a genus of fishes in the family Apogonidae native to the western Pacific Ocean.
Species
The 18 recognized species in this genus are:
- Jaydia albomarginatus <small>(H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912)</small>
- Jaydia argyrogaster <small>(M. C. W. Weber, 1909)</small> (silver-mouth cardinalfish)
- Jaydia carinatus <small>(G. Cuvier, 1828)</small> (ocellated cardinalfish)
- Jaydia catalai <small>(Fourmanoir, 1973)</small>
- Jaydia erythrophthalma <small>Gon, Y. C. Liao & K. T. Shao, 2015</small>
- Jaydia hungi <small>(Fourmanoir & Do-Thi, 1965)</small>
- Jaydia lineata <small>(Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)</small> (Indian cardinalfish)
- Jaydia melanopus <small>(M. C. W. Weber, 1911)</small> (monster cardinalfish)
- Jaydia novaeguineae <small>(Valenciennes, 1832)</small>
- Jaydia photogaster <small>(Gon & G. R. Allen, 1998)</small> (silver-belly cardinalfish)
- Jaydia poecilopterus <small>(G. Cuvier, 1828)</small> (pearly-finned cardinalfish)
- Jaydia quartus <small>(T. H. Fraser, 2000)</small>
- Jaydia queketti <small>(Gilchrist, 1903)</small> (spot-fin cardinalfish)
- Jaydia smithi <small>Kotthaus, 1970</small> (Smith's cardinalfish)
- Jaydia striata <small>(H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912)</small>
- Jaydia striatodes <small>(Gon, 1997)</small>
- Jaydia tchefouensis <small>(P. W. Fang, 1942)</small>
- Jaydia truncata <small>(Bleeker, 1855)</small> (flag-fin cardinalfish)
- Jaydia? quilonica Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith based fossil species, Burdigalian)
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