sea urchin cardinal

Siphamia mossambica

Classification

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Apogonidae

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.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 1

Sources and credits

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sea urchin cardinal

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