Stigmatopora

Genus of fishes

Stigmatopora
Stigmatopora nigra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Subfamily: Syngnathinae
Genus: Stigmatopora
Kaup, 1853
Type species
Syngnathus argus
Richardson, 1840
Species

5, see text

Synonyms
  • Nigracus Whitley, 1953
  • Stigmatopora Kaup, 1853

Stigmatopora is a genus of pipefishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

  • Stigmatopora argus (J. Richardson, 1840) (spotted pipefish)
  • Stigmatopora harastii Short & Trevor-Jones, 2020 (red wide-bodied pipefish)
  • Stigmatopora macropterygia A. H. A. Duméril, 1870 (long-snouted pipefish)
  • Stigmatopora narinosa Browne & K. Smith, 2007 (Southern Gulf pipefish)
  • Stigmatopora nigra Kaup, 1856 (wide-bodied pipefish)

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Stigmatopora". FishBase. October 2012 version.
  2. ^ Short, Graham; Trevor-Jones, Andrew (2020-11-17). "Stigmatopora harastii, a new species of pipefish in facultative associations with finger sponges and red algae from New South Wales, Australia (Teleostei, Syngnathidae)". ZooKeys (994): 105–123. doi:10.3897/zookeys.994.57160. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7686221. PMID 33273883.
Taxon identifiers
Stigmatopora


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