Siphamia
| Siphamia Temporal range:  
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| Siphamia tubifer | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Actinopterygii | 
| Order: | Gobiiformes | 
| Family: | Apogonidae | 
| Subfamily: | Apogoninae | 
| Genus: | M. C. W. Weber, 1909  | 
| Type species | |
| Siphamia tubifer M.C.W. Weber, 1909 
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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 recognized species in this genus are:[2]
- Siphamia arabica Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012
 - Siphamia argentea Lachner, 1953 (silver siphonfish)
 
- Siphamia arnazae Gerald R. Allen & Mark V. Erdmann, 2019 [3]
 
- 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) [4]
 - 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
- ^ a b 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: 43โ80. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9. S2CID 249184395.
 - ^ 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): 151โ203.
 - ^ Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. (2019) Siphamia arnazae, a new species of cardinalfish (Teleostei: Apogonidae) from Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 33, 1-8.; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3012186
 - ^ 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): 328โ340.
 
