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Siphamia

A genus of cardinalfishes commensal with sea urchins.

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Siphamia is a genus of marine and brackish-water fishes in the family Apogonidae, accepted by both WoRMS and GBIF.[1][2] The genus was established by Weber in 1909.[1][2] GBIF holds 3,626 occurrence records for this taxon as of 7 October 2026.[2]

Scientific classification

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassActinopterygii
  4. DivisionTeleostei
  5. OrderGobiiformes
  6. FamilyApogonidae
  7. GenusSiphamia

Named by M. C. W. Weber, 1909

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Siphamia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Quick Facts

Type species
Siphamia tubifer

Facts from the source article.

Biology and range

Siphamia species are classified in the order Perciformes according to GBIF, or Apogoniformes according to WoRMS.[2][1] Recognized species include Siphamia arabica, described by Gon and G. R. Allen in 2012.[3] Another recognized species is Siphamia argentea, described by Lachner in 1953, also known as the silver siphonfish.[3] The genus is placed within the class Teleostei by WoRMS.[1]

Siphamia is found in both marine and brackish environments.[1] The only known fossil belonging to this genus is Siphamia minor, a species identified from otoliths dating to the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene epoch, found in southwestern India.[4]

What the specialist sources record

The WoRMS database records Siphamia as accepted at genus rank, family Apogonidae, order Apogoniformes, class Teleostei.[1] The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy lists Siphamia as accepted, kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, order Perciformes, family Apogonidae.[2] According to the Wikipedia entry, the sole fossil evidence for Siphamia is Siphamia minor from the Miocene of southwestern India, which references a 2022 study by Nora published in PalZ.[4]

References

  1. World Register of Marine Species, Siphamia (AphiaID 204790). CC BY 4.0. marinespecies.org
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence index, Siphamia (taxon key 2397481). CC BY 4.0 (backbone); counts are facts. gbif.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Siphamia" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecu (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Siphamia" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Nora, "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India", PalZ, 2022, p. 43–80 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

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