Siphamia
| Siphamia | |
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| Siphamia tubifer | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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
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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.
Species[]
The 24 recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- & G. R. Allen, 2012
- , 1953 (silver siphonfish)
- & G. R. Allen, 2012 (shortlight siphonfish)
- (Castelnau, 1875) (Wood's siphonfish)
- G. R. Allen, 1993 (coral siphonfish)
- Whitley, 1941 (wedgehead siphonfish)
- & G. R. Allen, 2012 (blue-eye siphonfish)
- , 1953 (elongated siphonfish)
- (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (fFistulose cardinalfish)
- & G. R. Allen, 2012
- , 1953 (crown-of-thorns cardinalfish)
- & G. R. Allen, 2012
- (Alleyne & W. J. Macleay, 1877) (speckled siphonfish)
- G. R. Allen, 1993 (Jebb's siphonfish)
- Matsubara & , 1958 (striped siphonfish)
- J. L. B. Smith, 1955 (sea urchin cardinal)
- , G. R. Allen, & , 2014 (Papuan siphonfish) [2]
- & G. R. Allen, 2012
- (E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1887) (pink-breasted siphonfish)
- & G. R. Allen, 2012
- & G. R. Allen, 2012 (reef siphonfish)
- & G. R. Allen, 2012 (narrow-lined siphonfish)
- M. C. W. Weber, 1909 (tubifer cardinalfish)
- (M. C. W. Weber, 1909) (siphonfish)
References[]
- ^ 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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