Siphamia

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
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 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. 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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