Sigara Explained

Sigara is a genus of water boatmen in the family Corixidae. Some species within this genus are halophiles; for example, occurrences of the genus have been noted in the hypersaline Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana.^[1]

Species

These 100 species belong to the genus Sigara:

• Sigara alluaudi (Kirkaldy, 1899)

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• Sigara alternata (Say, 1825)

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• Sigara arguta
• Sigara assimilis (Fieber, 1848)

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• Sigara atomaria Illiger, 1807

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• Sigara basalis (A.Costa, 1843)

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• Sigara bellula (Horváth, 1879)

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• Sigara berneri Hungerford and Hussey, 1957

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• Sigara bicoloripennis (Walley, 1936)

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• Sigara bradleyi (Abbott, 1913)

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• Sigara compressoidea (Hungerford, 1928)

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• Sigara conocephala (Hungerford, 1926)

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• Sigara cubiensis Hungerford, 1948

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• Sigara daghestanica Jansson, 1983

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• Sigara decorata (Abbott, 1916)

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• Sigara decoratella (Hungerford, 1926)

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• Sigara defecta Hungerford, 1948

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• Sigara denseconscripta

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• Sigara depressa Hungerford, 1948

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• Sigara distincta
• Sigara distorta (Distant, 1911)

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• Sigara dolabra Hungerford and Sailer, 1943

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• Sigara dorsalis
• Sigara douglasensis (Hungerford, 1926)

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• Sigara falleni (Fieber, 1848)

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• Sigara fallenoidea (Hungerford, 1926)

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• Sigara formosana (Matsumura, 1915)

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• Sigara fossarum (Leach, 1817)

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• Sigara gordita (Abbott, 1913)

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• Sigara grossolineata Hungerford, 1948

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• Sigara hellensii (C.R.Sahlberg, 1819)

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• Sigara hoggarica Poisson, 1929

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• Sigara hubbelli (Hungerford, 1928)

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• Sigara hydratotrephes (Kirkaldy, 1908)

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• Sigara iactans Jansson, 1983

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• Sigara italica Jaczewski, 1933

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• Sigara janssoni Lucas Castro, 1983

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• Sigara johnstoni Hungerford, 1948

^{i c g}

• Sigara knighti Hungerford, 1948

^{i c g}

• Sigara krafti Stonedahl, 1984

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• Sigara lateralis (Leach, 1817)

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• Sigara lemana Fieber, 1860

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• Sigara limitata (Fieber, 1848)

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• Sigara lineata (Forster, 1771)

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• Sigara longipalis (J.Sahlberg, 1878)

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• Sigara mackinacensis (Hungerford, 1928)

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• Sigara macrocepsoidea Hungerford, 1942

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• Sigara macropala (Hungerford, 1926)

^{i c g}

• Sigara mathesoni Hungerford, 1948

^{i c g}

• Sigara mayri (Fieber, 1860)

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• Sigara mckinstryi Hungerford, 1948

^{i c g}

• Sigara meridionalis (Wallengren, 1875)

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• Sigara minuta Fabricius, 1794

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• Sigara mississippiensis Hungerford, 1942

^{i c g}

• Sigara modesta (Abbott, 1916)

^{i c g}

• Sigara mullettensis (Hungerford, 1928)

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• Sigara nevadensis (Walley, 1936)

^{i c g}

• Sigara nigrolineata
• Sigara nigroventralis (Matsumura, 1905)

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• Sigara omani (Hungerford, 1930)

^{i c g b}

• Sigara ornata (Abbott, 1916)

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• Sigara paludata Hungerford, 1942

^{i c g}

• Sigara pectenata (Abbott, 1913)

^{i c g}

• Sigara penniensis (Hungerford, 1928)

^{i c g}

• Sigara platensis

^g

• Sigara quebecensis (Walley, 1930)

^{i c g}

• Sigara rubyae

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• Sigara saileri Wilson, 1953

^{i c g}

• Sigara salgadoi Lucas Castro, 1983

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• Sigara santiagiensis (Hungerford, 1928)

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• Sigara scabra (Abbott, 1913)

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• Sigara schadei Hungerford, 1928

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• Sigara scholtzi Fieber, 1860

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• Sigara scholtzii Scholtz, 1847

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• Sigara scotti (Douglas & Scott, 1868)

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• Sigara scripta (Rambur, 1840)

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• Sigara selecta (Fieber, 1848)

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• Sigara semistriata (Fieber, 1848)

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• Sigara septemlineata (Paiva, 1918)

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• Sigara servadeii Tamanini, 1965

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• Sigara sigmoidea (Abbott, 1913)

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• Sigara signata (Fieber, 1851)

^{i c g}

• Sigara solensis (Hungerford, 1926)

^{i c g}

• Sigara stagnalis (Leach, 1817)

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• Sigara stigmatica (Fieber, 1851)

^{i c g}

• Sigara striata (Linnaeus, 1758)

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• Sigara tadeuszi Lundblad, 1933

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• Sigara takahashii Hungerford, 1940

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• Sigara transfigurata (Walley, 1930)

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• Sigara trilineata (Provancher, 1872)

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• Sigara truncatipala (Hale, 1922)

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• Sigara tucma

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• Sigara vallis Lauck, 1966

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• Sigara vandykei Hungerford, 1948

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• Sigara variabilis (Hungerford, 1926)

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• Sigara venusta (Douglas & Scott, 1869)

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• Sigara virginiensis Hungerford, 1948

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• Sigara washingtonensis Hungerford, 1948

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• Sigara yala

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• Sigara zimmermanni (Fieber, 1851)

^{i c g}Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

See also

• Extremophile

Notes and References

1. C. Michael Hogan (2008) Makgadikgadi, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham