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The leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) or Glauert's seadragon, is a marine fish. It is the only member of the genus Phycodurus in the family Syngnathidae, which includes seadragons, pipefish, and seahorses. [2] Leafy seadragon skeleton. It is found along the southern and western coasts of Australia. The name is derived from their appearance ...
A database of seadragon sightings, known as 'Dragon Search' has been established with support from the Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc., ('Dragon Search' arose as the logical progression of a similar project initiated by the MLSSA, which was the first community group or indeed organisation of any type to adopt the common seadragon's ...
The Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons (Phycodurus and Phyllopteryx). The name is derived from Ancient Greek: σύν (syn), meaning "together", and γνάθος (gnathos), meaning "jaw". [1] The fused jaw is one of the traits that the entire family have in common. [2]
A third and new species of seadragon has been discovered. Named the ruby seadragon, it joins its two known counterparts, leafy and weedy, in a group characterized by seahorse-like bodies and ...
Ruby seadragon also have prehensile tails, while leafy seadragons and weedy seadragons lack these tails. [10] One explanation is that this absence in the leafy weedy seadragons evolved in each species independently, and that the prehensile tail in the ruby seadragon was maintained from a common ancestor of Syngnathidae . [ 10 ]
Phyllopteryx is a genus of small fishes, commonly called seadragons, in the family Syngnathidae that are found along the western and southern coasts of Australia. Since the 19th century, the weedy or common seadragon was the only known species, until the description of the ruby seadragon in 2015.
The Syngnathiformes / ˈ s ɪ ŋ (ɡ) n ə θ ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the leafy seadragons, sea moths, trumpetfishes and seahorses, among others. [2] These fishes have generally elongate, narrow bodies surrounded by a series of bony rings, with small, tubular mouths.
Leafy sea dragon (mistitled, actually Weedy seadragon, Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) watercolour on paper sketch from the Sketchbook of fishes by Van Diemonian (Tasmanian) artist and convict William Buelow Gould (1801 - 1853). This full reproduction shows the bindings of the sketchbook at the top of the image.