Coral siphonfish

Siphamia corallicola

Five red brown bands with silver gaps

Coral siphonfish is known around Western Central Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and records give a maximum length of 3.1 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Cardinalfishes
Family: Apogonidae
Genus: Siphamia
Maximum length: 3.1 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: deep_bodied
Distribution: Western Central Pacific: Philippines and Malaysia south to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Probably occurs widely in the Indo-Malay and Melanesian archipelagos but has thus far escaped detection because of its small size and cryptic behavior.

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