Jaydia

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 (H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) Jaydia argyrogaster (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (silver-mouth cardinalfish) Jaydia carinatus (G. Cuvier, 1828) (ocellated cardinalfish) Jaydia catalai (Fourmanoir, 1973) Jaydia erythrophthalma Gon, Y. C. Liao & K. T. Shao, 2015 Jaydia hungi (Fourmanoir & Do-Thi, 1965) Jaydia lineata (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (Indian cardinalfish) Jaydia melanopus (M. C. W. Weber, 1911) (monster cardinalfish) Jaydia novaeguineae (Valenciennes, 1832) Jaydia photogaster (Gon & G. R. Allen, 1998) (silver-belly cardinalfish) Jaydia poecilopterus (G. Cuvier, 1828) (pearly-finned cardinalfish) Jaydia quartus (T. H. Fraser, 2000) Jaydia queketti (Gilchrist, 1903) (spot-fin cardinalfish) Jaydia smithi Kotthaus, 1970 (Smith's cardinalfish) Jaydia striata (H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) Jaydia striatodes (Gon, 1997) Jaydia tchefouensis (P. W. Fang, 1942) Jaydia truncata (Bleeker, 1855) (flag-fin cardinalfish) Jaydia? quilonica Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith based fossil species, Burdigalian)