Siphamia

Siphamia
Temporal range:
Siphamia tubifer
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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

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]

References

  1. ^ 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: 43โ€“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): 151โ€“203.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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): 328โ€“340.