Siren (genus)

SirenTemporal range:
Lesser siren, Siren intermedia
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Sirenidae
Genus:	SirenLinnaeus, 1766
Siren lacertinaLinnaeus, 1766

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Siren is a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae. The genus consists of five living species, along with one extinct species from the Eocene Epoch and three from the Miocene.

The living species have elongated, eel-like bodies, with two small vestigial fore legs.

Siren intermedia, the lesser siren, has been seen as both a colonizer and a dominant species, in a single community, at two different succession stages. In Texas, during the 1970s, the species was found to have removed at least 283 individuals from a beaver pond, over a four year period.

Extant (living) species include:

• Siren intermedia Barnes, 1826 – lesser siren
• Siren lacertina Linnaeus, 1766 – greater siren
• Siren nettingi Goin, 1942 – western siren
• Siren reticulata Graham, Kline, Steen & Kelehear, 2018 – reticulated siren or leopard eel
• Siren sphagnicola Fedler, Enge & Moler, 2023 – seepage siren

Extinct species:

• †Siren dunni Goin & Auffenberg, 1957

• †Siren hesterna Goin & Auffenberg, 1955

• †Siren miotexana Holman, 1977

• †Siren simpsoni Goin & Auffenberg, 1955

• Siren intermedia nettingi,

western lesser siren

• Siren lacertina,

greater siren,

skeleton

• Pseudobranchus, dwarf sirens

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