Lissocampus

Lissocampus
Lissocampus runa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Syngnathiformes
Family:Syngnathidae
Subfamily:Syngnathinae
Genus:Lissocampus
Waite & Hale, 1921
Type species
Lissocampus caudalis
Waite & Hale, 1921
Synonyms[1]

Larvicampus Whitley, 1948

Lissocampus is a genus of pipefishes mostly native to the Indian Ocean. One species (L. bannwarthi) is only known to occur in the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez and one species (L. filum) occurs in the Pacific Ocean around New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. The remaining species are endemic to Australia.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]

  • Lissocampus bannwarthi (Duncker, 1915)
  • Lissocampus caudalis Waite & Hale, 1921 (smooth pipefish)
  • Lissocampus fatiloquus (Whitley, 1943) (prophet's pipefish)
  • Lissocampus filum (Günther, 1870) (shortsnout pipefish)
  • Lissocampus runa (Whitley, 1931) (javelin pipefish)

References

  1. ↑ William Eschmeyer, ed. (30 May 2018). "Genera that contain: Lissocampus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Lissocampus in FishBase. October 2012 version.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.