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Siphonfishes
Siphamia
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.
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 28 known species

Wood's Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia cephalotes

Urchin Cardinalfish
speciesSiphamia tubifer

Wedgehead Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia cuneiceps

Pinkbreast Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia roseigaster

Coral Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia corallicola

Striped Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia majimai

Siphamia fuscolineata
speciesSiphamia fuscolineata

Elongate Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia elongata

Jebb's Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia jebbi

Silver Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia argentea

Siphamia mossambica
speciesSiphamia mossambica

Siphamia spinicola
speciesSiphamia spinicola
Siphamia senoui
speciesSiphamia senoui

Blue-eye Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia cyanophthalma
Speckled Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia guttulata
Pipe Siphonfish
speciesSiphamia tubulata
Siphamia arabica
speciesSiphamia arabica
Siphamia brevilux
speciesSiphamia brevilux
Siphamia fraseri
speciesSiphamia fraseri
Siphamia goreni
speciesSiphamia goreni
Siphamia randalli
speciesSiphamia randalli
Siphamia stenotes
speciesSiphamia stenotes
Siphamia arnazae
speciesSiphamia arnazae
Siphamia papuensis
speciesSiphamia papuensis
Siphamia permutata
speciesSiphamia permutata
Siphamia zaribae
speciesSiphamia zaribae
Siphamia fistulosa
speciesSiphamia fistulosa
Siphamia versicolor
speciesSiphamia versicolor
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 92086.