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Ichthyocampus carce, also known as the freshwater pipefish or Indian freshwater pipefish, is a species of marine fish in the family Syngnathidae. [1] It can be found mainly in freshwater streams, rivers, and estuaries located in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific, from Indonesia to the western coast of India.
Pseudophallus mindii, also known as the freshwater pipefish is a species of marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae. [1] They can be found in freshwater coastal rivers and mangrove estuaries ranging from Belize to Brazil. [2] Members of this species can grow to lengths of 16 cm and their diet likely consists of small crustaceans.
Hippichthys heptagonus, the belly pipefish, is a species of freshwater pipefish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found from Kenya and South Africa to the Solomon Islands , and from southern Japan to New South Wales . [ 1 ]
Male seahorses have a specialized ventral brood pouch to carry the embryos, male sea dragons attach the eggs to their tails, and male pipefish may do either, depending on their species. [4] The most fundamental difference between the different lineages of the family Syngnathidae is the location of male brood pouch. [5]
The ventral seams are not opened until weeks later when the male pipefish give birth. [6] The subcaudal pouch of the male of the black-striped pipefish (Syngnathus abaster) A physical limit exists for the number of eggs a male pipefish can carry, so males are considered to be the limiting sex.
Hippichthys spicifer, commonly known as bellybarred pipefish, banded freshwater pipefish, or blue spotted pipefish, is a species of pipefish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and East Africa to Sri Lanka and Samoa . [ 1 ]
Microphis insularis, also known as the Andaman pipefish, is a species of freshwater pipefish belonging to the family Sygnathidae. [1] This species is found only in rivers and streams located in the Andaman Islands, India. [2] [3] They can reach 16 cm (6.3 in) in length and reproduce through ovoviviparity, in which males carry eggs and give live ...
Microphis argulus (W. K. H. Peters, 1855) (flat-nosed pipefish) Microphis brachyurus (Bleeker, 1854) (short-tailed pipefish) Microphis brevidorsalis (de Beaufort, 1913) (stream pipefish) Microphis caudocarinatus (M. C. W. Weber, 1907) (slender pipefish, Tawarin river pipefish) Microphis cruentus C. E. Dawson & Fourmanoir, 1981 (Dumbéa River ...