Siphamia cyanophthalma Blue-eye siphonfish

Siphamia cyanophthalma is commonly referred to as Blue-eye siphonfish. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

8792 

AphiaID:

712702 

Scientific:

Siphamia cyanophthalma 

German:

Kardinalbarsch 

English:

Blue-eye Siphonfish 

Category:

Poissons-Cardinals 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Apogonidae (Family) > Siphamia (Genus) > cyanophthalma (Species) 

Initial determination:

Gon & Allen, 2012 

Occurrence:

Indonesia, Papua, Raja Amat, Sulawesi 

Sea depth:

- 31 Meter 

Size:

up to 0.87" (2.2 cm) 

Temperature:

75.2 °F - 82.4 °F (24°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Copepods, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Not evaluated (NE) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Siphamia arabica
• 
  Siphamia argentea
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia brevilux
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia cephalotes
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia corallicola
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia cuneiceps
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia cyanophthalma
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia elongata
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia fistulosa
  Kardinalbarsch
• Siphamia fraseri
• 
  Siphamia fuscolineata
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia goreni
  Kardinalbarsch
• Siphamia guttulata
• 
  Siphamia jebbi
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia majimai
  Leuchtkardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia mossambica
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia randalli
  Randalls Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia roseigaster
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia senoui
  Senous Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia spinicola
  Riff-Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia stenotes
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia tubifer
  Seeigel-Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia tubulata
  Kardinalbarsch
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Siphamia arnazae
  Kardinalbarsch
• 
  Siphamia papuensis
  Kardinalbarsch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2015-09-30 10:40:34 

Last edit:

2019-06-22 14:21:11 

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