Dunckerocampus
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Yellow banded pipefish ( Dunckerocampus pessuliferus ) |
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Dunckerocampus is a genus of pipefish found in the Red Sea , the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific to New Caledonia .
features
Dunckerocampus species are 10 to 19 cm long, they have a very slender body and a long tube snout. They usually have a whitish or yellow base color and are patterned with more or less broad, reddish, brownish or black ringlets. The large, round or fan-shaped caudal fin is each patterned with a distinctive drawing typical of the species.
Way of life
Dunckerocampus species live in coral reefs , are free-swimming fish and are mostly found in or in front of caves or under reef overhangs. They feed mainly on small crustaceans such as copepods and some species also act as cleaner fish and clean larger fish from parasitic crustaceans.
Dunckerocampus species usually live in pairs as adult fish. After courtship, the males take over the eggs from the female to carry them on the spongy side of the abdomen. The approximately 30 to 200 eggs per brood lie there half-open and are not protected by lateral skin flaps.
species
There are seven types described . Kuiter gives two more, so far undescribed species for the genus.
- Red stripe pipefish ( Dunckerocampus baldwini ) (Herald & Randall, 1972); 15 cm; Hawaii .
- Broadband pipefish ( Dunckerocampus boylei ) Kuiter, 1998; 16 cm; Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
- Luminous-tailed pipefish ( Dunckerocampus chapmani ) (Herald, 1953); 10 centimeters; New Caledonia .
- Banded pipefish ( Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus ) (Bleeker, 1853); 19 cm; Java .
- Multi- banded pipefish ( Dunckerocampus multiannulatus ) (Regan, 1903); 19 cm; Indian Ocean.
- Dunckerocampus naia , Allen & Kuiter, 2004; 12 cm; Fiji.
- Yellow banded pipefish ( Dunckerocampus pessuliferus ) (Fowler, 1938); 16 cm; Sulu Sea , along the Wallace Line to southern Indonesia.
Systematics
Dunckerocampus belongs to the subfamily of flagtail pipefish (Doryrhamphinae) connected to the coil needles (Nerophinae) the taxon Gastrophori form, that Jianzui, in which the breeding of the male zone under the abdomen is in front of the anus. Dunckerocampus was originally viewed as a subgenus of Doryrhamphus , but is now considered an independent genus.
literature
- Rudie H. Kuiter : Seahorses: pipefish, shredded fish and their relatives . Ulmer (Eugen), 2001, ISBN 3-80013-244-3
Web links
- Eschmeyer, WN, & R. Fricke. Catalog of Fishes