Shred Pipefish
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Torn Pipefish ( Haliichthys taeniophorus ) |
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| Haliichthys taeniophorus | ||||||||||||
| Gray, 1859 |
The pipefish ( Haliichthys taeniophorus ), also known as the pipefish , pipefish or pipefish , is a species of pipefish that grows on the New Guinea coast , in the Torres Strait and on the coast of northern Australia from Shark Bay via Darwin occurs to northern Queensland . The shredded pipefish lives at depths of up to 16 meters in plant-covered areas and open regions such as tidal channels. It also lives deeper on open soft soils.
features
The fish are at least 30 centimeters long and are very variable in color. The body of fish caught in shallow water is greenish-yellow, that of animals living in deeper zones is brown to reddish and shows a pattern of spots. It is camouflaged by numerous, often divided, leaf-like skin appendages. The snout is long and pipette-like .
discovery
The species was already described in 1859 by the British zoologist John Edward Gray , but was only known from dead specimens from trawler catches. It was not until the second half of the 20th century that pearl divers reported seeing a shrimp fish previously only known from the South Australian coast near Broome on the northwest coast of Australia. More detailed investigations showed that it was the already known pipefish species. In the specimens caught with nets, the characteristic shreds of skin are always torn off.
External system
Haliichthys is part of the subfamily Solegnathinae by Kuiter together with the shredded fish and the genera Solegnathus and Syngnathoides . Wilson & Rouse proved, however, that Haliichthys is not closely related to the two shrimp species and that the similar camouflage by leaf-like skin appendages must have arisen twice independently of each other. Haliichthys is the sister group of a large clade that includes the seahorses ( Hippocampus ), Hippichthys , Syngnathus, and probably the dwarf needle horses (Acentronurinae).
literature
- Rudie H. Kuiter : Seahorses, pipefish, shredded fish and their relatives , 2001, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8001-3244-3
Individual evidence
- ^ N. Wilson, & G. Rouse (2010). Convergent camouflage and the non-monophyly of 'seadragons' (Syngnathidae: Teleostei): suggestions for a revised taxonomy of syngnathids. Zoologica Scripta doi : 10.1111 / j.1463-6409.2010.00449.x
Web links
- Fetzen-Seenadel on Fishbase.org (English)