Main identification features
- snout very long, slender
- dorsal fin long base, 37-54
- operculum: several ridges
- a: tiny, 4
- tail fin small
MICROPHIS
PIPEFISHES
Ridges along upper side of body and of tail not joined; ridge on midside of body joins ridge on lower side of tail; lower body ridge ends at anus; trunk rings 15-22; operculum with or without a longitudinal ridge; dorsal 25-74 rays, origin on trunk; anal fin usually 4 rays; tail 9 rays; brood pouch under trunk, with vertical plates, no pouches.
A circumtropical genus, with 17 species. One west Atlantic species evidently has passed through the Panama Canal to the tropical eastern Pacific.
|
- Castro-Aguirre, J.L., 1999., Ictiofauna estuarino-lagunar y vicaria de México., Editorial Limusa S.A. de C.V.: 1-629pp.
- Dawson, C.E., 1979., Review of the polytypic doryrhamphine pipefish Oostethus brachyurus (Bleeker)., Bull. Mar. Sci., 29:465-480.
- Dawson, C.E., 1984., Revision of the genus Microphis Kaup (Pisces: Syngnathidae)., Bull. Mar. Sci., 35:117-181.
- Dawson, C.E., 1985., Indo-Pacific Pipefishes., Gulf Coast Research laboratory:230.
- Kaup, J. J., 1856., Catalogue of lophobranchiate fish in the collection of the British Museum. London., Cat. Lophobranchiate Fish, :1-76.
- McCosker , J. E. and Dawson, C. E., 1975., Biotic passage through the Panama Canal, with particular reference to fishes., Marine Biology, 30:343-351.
- Musick, J.A., Harbin, M.M., Berkeley, S.A., Burgess, G.H. Eklund, A.M., Findley, L., Gilmore, R.G., Golden, J.T., Ha, D.S., Huntsman, G.R., McGovern, J.C., Parker, S.J., Poss, S.G., Sala, E., & Schmidt, T.W., Sedberry, G.R., Weeks, H., Wright, S.G., 2000., Marine, estuarine, and diadromous fish stocks at risk of extinction in North America (exclusive of Pacific salmonids)., Fisheries, 25:6-30.
- Rubio, E.A., 1988., Estudio taxonomico de la ictiofauna acompañante del camaron en areas costeras del Pacifico de Colombia., Memorias del VI Seminario Nacional de las Ciencias del Mar. Comisión Colombiana de Oceanografía. Bogota, Colombia., :169-183.
|
