Siphamia
Siphamia tubifer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Kurtiformes
Family: Apogonidae
Subfamily: Apogoninae
Genus: Siphamia
M. C. W. Weber, 1909
Type species
Siphamia tubifer
M.C.W. Weber, 1909

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 southwestern India is the only fossil record for this genus.[1]

Species

The 24 recognized species in this genus are:[2]

  • Siphamia arabica Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
  • Siphamia argentea Lachner, 1953 (silver siphonfish)
  • Siphamia brevilux Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (shortlight siphonfish)
  • Siphamia cephalotes (Castelnau, 1875) (Wood's siphonfish)
  • Siphamia corallicola G. R. Allen, 1993 (coral siphonfish)
  • Siphamia cuneiceps Whitley, 1941 (wedgehead siphonfish)
  • Siphamia cyanophthalma Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (blue-eye siphonfish)
  • Siphamia elongata Lachner, 1953 (elongated siphonfish)
  • Siphamia fistulosa (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (Fistulose cardinalfish)
  • Siphamia fraseri Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
  • Siphamia fuscolineata Lachner, 1953 (crown-of-thorns cardinalfish)
  • Siphamia goreni Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
  • Siphamia guttulatus (Alleyne & W. J. Macleay, 1877) (speckled siphonfish)
  • Siphamia jebbi G. R. Allen, 1993 (Jebb's siphonfish)
  • Siphamia majimai Matsubara & Iwai, 1958 (striped siphonfish)
  • Siphamia mossambica J. L. B. Smith, 1955 (sea urchin cardinal)
  • Siphamia papuensis Gon, G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Gouws, 2014 (Papuan siphonfish) [3]
  • Siphamia randalli Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
  • Siphamia roseigaster (E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1887) (pink-breasted siphonfish)
  • Siphamia senoui Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
  • Siphamia spinicola Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (reef siphonfish)
  • Siphamia stenotes Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 (narrow-lined siphonfish)
  • Siphamia tubifer M. C. W. Weber, 1909 (tubifer cardinalfish)
  • Siphamia tubulata (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (siphonfish)
  • Siphamia minor Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022[1] (otolith-based fossil species)

References

  1. 1 2 Nora, Carolin; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. 97: 43–80. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9. S2CID 249184395.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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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