{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Burdigalian|Holocene}} | image = Siphamia tubifer.jpg | image_caption = ''Siphamia tubifer'' | taxon = Siphamia | authority = M. C. W. Weber, 1909 | type_species = ''Siphamia tubifer'' | type_species_authority = 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Nora |first1=Carolin |last2=Bajpai |first2=Sunil |last3=Maurya |first3=Abhayanand Singh |last4=Schwarzhans |first4=Werner |year=2022 |title=New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India |journal=PalZ |volume=97 |pages=43–80 |doi=10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9|s2cid=249184395 }}</ref>
==Species== The recognized species in this genus are:<ref name=Mabuchi2014>Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. (2014): [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/z03846p203f.pdf Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters.] ''Zootaxa, 3846 (2): 151–203.''</ref> * ''Siphamia arabica'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> * ''Siphamia argentea'' <small>Lachner, 1953</small> (silver siphonfish)
* ''Siphamia arnazae'' <small>Gerald R. Allen & Mark V. Erdmann, 2019</small> <ref>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</ref>
* ''Siphamia brevilux'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> (shortlight siphonfish) * ''Siphamia cephalotes'' <small>(Castelnau, 1875)</small> (Wood's siphonfish) * ''Siphamia corallicola'' <small>G. R. Allen, 1993</small> (coral siphonfish) * ''Siphamia cuneiceps'' <small>Whitley, 1941</small> (wedgehead siphonfish) * ''Siphamia cyanophthalma'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> (blue-eye siphonfish) * ''Siphamia elongata'' <small>Lachner, 1953</small> (elongated siphonfish) * ''Siphamia fistulosa'' <small>(M. C. W. Weber, 1909)</small> (Fistulose cardinalfish) * ''Siphamia fraseri'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> * ''Siphamia fuscolineata'' <small>Lachner, 1953</small> (crown-of-thorns cardinalfish) * ''Siphamia goreni'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> * ''Siphamia guttulatus'' <small>(Alleyne & W. J. Macleay, 1877)</small> (speckled siphonfish) * ''Siphamia jebbi'' <small>G. R. Allen, 1993</small> (Jebb's siphonfish) * ''Siphamia majimai'' <small>Matsubara & Iwai, 1958</small> (striped siphonfish) * ''Siphamia mossambica'' <small>J. L. B. Smith, 1955</small> (sea urchin cardinal) * ''Siphamia papuensis'' <small>Gon, G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Gouws, 2014</small> (Papuan siphonfish) <ref name=Gon2014>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.''</ref> * ''Siphamia randalli'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> * ''Siphamia roseigaster'' <small>(E. P. Ramsay & J. D. Ogilby, 1887)</small> (pink-breasted siphonfish) * ''Siphamia senoui'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> * ''Siphamia spinicola'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> (reef siphonfish) * ''Siphamia stenotes'' <small>Gon & G. R. Allen, 2012</small> (narrow-lined siphonfish) * ''Siphamia tubifer'' <small>M. C. W. Weber, 1909</small> (tubifer cardinalfish) * ''Siphamia tubulata'' <small>(M. C. W. Weber, 1909)</small> (siphonfish) * ''Siphamia minor'' Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022<ref name=":0" /> (otolith-based fossil species)
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Category:Apogoninae Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Max Carl Wilhelm Weber
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