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:
- 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)
- 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 (otolith-based fossil species)
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