''Siphamia'' is a
genus
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of
cardinalfish
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es native to the
Indian
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and
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. Several of these species are
commensal
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with various species of
sea urchin
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s.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of southwestern India is the only fossil record for this genus.
Species
The 24 recognized species in this genus are:
[Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014)]
Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters.
''Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.''
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Siphamia arabica''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
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Siphamia argentea''
Lachner, 1953 (silver siphonfish)
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Siphamia brevilux''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (shortlight siphonfish)
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Siphamia cephalotes''
( Castelnau, 1875) (Wood's siphonfish)
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Siphamia corallicola''
G. R. Allen, 1993 (coral siphonfish)
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Siphamia cuneiceps''
Whitley, 1941 (wedgehead siphonfish)
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Siphamia cyanophthalma''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (blue-eye siphonfish)
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Siphamia elongata''
Lachner, 1953 (elongated siphonfish)
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Siphamia fistulosa''
( M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (Fistulose cardinalfish)
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Siphamia fraseri
''Siphamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Several of these species are commensal with various species of sea urchins.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of so ...
''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
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Siphamia fuscolineata
''Siphamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Several of these species are commensal with various species of sea urchins.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of so ...
''
Lachner, 1953 (crown-of-thorns cardinalfish)
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Siphamia goreni
''Siphamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Several of these species are commensal with various species of sea urchins.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of so ...
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Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
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Siphamia guttulatus
''Siphamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Several of these species are commensal with various species of sea urchins.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of so ...
''
( Alleyne & W. J. Macleay, 1877) (speckled siphonfish)
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Siphamia jebbi
''Siphamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Several of these species are commensal with various species of sea urchins.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of so ...
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G. R. Allen, 1993 (Jebb's siphonfish)
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Siphamia majimai
''Siphamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Several of these species are commensal with various species of sea urchins.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of so ...
''
Matsubara
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& Iwai, 1958 (striped siphonfish)
* ''
Siphamia mossambica''
J. L. B. Smith
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, 1955 (sea urchin cardinal)
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Siphamia papuensis''
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, 2014 (Papuan siphonfish)
[Gon, O., Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Gouws, G. (2014): A new species of the cardinalfish genus ''Siphamia'' (Perciformes, Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia. ''Zootaxa, 3881 (4): 328–340.'']
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Siphamia randalli''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
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Siphamia roseigaster''
( E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1887) (pink-breasted siphonfish)
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Siphamia senoui
''Siphamia'' is a genus of cardinalfishes native to the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Several of these species are commensal with various species of sea urchins.
''Siphamia minor'', a dwarf otolith-based species from the Burdigalian (Miocene) of so ...
''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
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Siphamia spinicola''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (reef siphonfish)
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Siphamia stenotes''
Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (narrow-lined siphonfish)
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Siphamia tubifer''
M. C. W. Weber, 1909 (tubifer cardinalfish)
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Siphamia tubulata''
( M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (siphonfish)
* ''Siphamia minor'' Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022
(otolith-based fossil species)
References
Apogoninae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
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