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.
Species The 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. Siphamia arabica Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012 Siphamia argentea Lachner, 1953 (silver siphonfish)
Siphamia arnazae Gerald R. Allen & Mark V. Erdmann, 2019 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
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) 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. 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 (otolith-based fossil species)
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