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Apogonidae (Cardinalfishes) > Apogoninae
Etymology: Siphamia: A Swazi word, siphama, for a fish; spinicola: Name from Latin 'spinicola' for 'spine-dweller'; referring to its habit of living among the spines of echinoderms.
Environnement : milieu / zone climatique / profondeur / gamme de distribution
Écologie
marin benthopélagique; profondeur 5 - 20 m (Ref. 90102). Tropical
Western Central Pacific: New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Federated States of Micronesia (Ref. 90035).
Taille / Poids / Âge
Maturité: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 4.0 cm TL mâle / non sexé; (Ref. 90102)
Description synthétique
Clés d'identification | Morphologie | Morphométrie
Épines dorsales (Total) : 8; Rayons mous dorsaux (Total) : 9; Épines anales: 2; Rayons mous anaux: 8. Dorsal rays VII+I,9; anal rays II,8; pectoral rays 14-16; tubed lateral-line scales 14-21; median predorsal scales 4-5; total gill rakers 2-4 + 9-11 = 12-14; developed gill rakers 1 + 8-9; gill rakers on ceratobranchial 7-8. Body depth 2.4-2.7 in SL and body width 1.8-2.2 in the depth; eye diameter 2.8-3.4 in head length; first dorsal spine 2.5-3.25 in second spine; second dorsal spine 4.15-5.5, spine of second dorsal fin 3.5-4.6, and second anal spine 5.5-6.1, all in head length; pectoral-fin length 4.4-5.4 and pelvic-fin length 4.1-5.3 in SL; caudal-peduncle length 1.3-1.9 in distance between pelvic spine insertion and anal-fin origin. Preopercular edge with 19-32 small serrations; preopercular ridge smooth. Tip of light organ on each side of tongue bound by membrane (Ref. 90035).
Body shape (shape guide): short and / or deep; Cross section: compressed.
Inhabits coral reefs in 5-20 m (Ref 90102). Specimens were collected from and observed among the spines of Acanthaster planci in Woleai Atoll and Diadema savignyi in New Ireland (USNM 357887) on bottoms of coral and rock or on coral patches surrounded by
sand (Ref. 90035).
Cycle de vie et comportement reproducteur
Maturité | Reproduction | Frai | Œufs | Fécondité | Larves
Gon, O. and G.R. Allen, 2012. Revision of the Indo-Pacific cardinalfish genus Siphamia (Perciformes: Apogonidae). Zootaxa 3294:1-84. (Ref. 90035)
Statut dans la liste rouge de l'IUCN (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Menace pour l'homme
Harmless
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Estimations basées sur des modèles
Indice de diversité phylogénétique (Réf. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
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Bayesian length-weight
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a=0.01479 (0.00693 - 0.03157), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
Niveau trophique (Réf. 69278) |
3.2 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
Résilience (Réf. 120179) |
Haut, temps minimum de doublement de population inférieur à 15 mois (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
Vulnérabilité de la pêche (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (10 of 100). 🛈 |