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Siphamia

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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.

Species

ヒカリイシモチ属

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilyApogonidae
Habitatmarine, brackish
Observations recorded3,609

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
185
With media
14
Family
Apogonidae
Collections
USNM, NMV, CAS, FMNH
Recorded in
French Polynesia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Australia, Solomon Islands, Palau, Indonesia, Micronesia

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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Species
  • References

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siphamia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.