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Fish from N E Sulawesi
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The damsel does seem to be the Honeyhead. The cardinal is hard to ID with the books I have here, I will get back to you when I get my books in the office...
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My best guess for the cardinals is Apogon monospilus
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Thanks to both of you
For the cardinalfish I too thought A. monospilus is the only one bearing any resemblace. But that is just by comparing with the pic in Reef Fish South Pacific. The pics on Fishbase and the Australian Museum site are vey different and don't bear any resemblance.
I have found a technical paper by Randall, Frazer and Allen which indicates that little is known about A. monospilus and only few specimens have ever been examined. However, it does show that the brown colour on Fishbase and the Aus Museum is its night colour and it is much lighter in the daytime (when I took this shot) and with the long brown body stripe. They say it does have a tiny white spot after the second dorsal which mine do.
I'll wait and see if anybody else chimes in or if Luiz comes up with anything else but it looks as though this might only ever be a tentative i.d.