Siphamia
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| Siphamia | |
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| Siphamia tubifer | |
Scientific 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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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: 43–80. 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): 151–203.
- ^ 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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