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Adult of Microphis brachyurus at the mouth of Santa Ana, Santa Ana drainage [Veracruz]. Photo by Manuel Salazar González. (23-Feb-2008). determiner Juan Miguel Artigas Azas

Family
Syngnathidae

Genus
Microphis

Last updated on:
06-Jun-2022

Microphis brachyurus Bleeker, 1853

Culebra; Opossum pipefish.

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Original description as Syngnathus brachyurus:

ZooBank:3C6B5CB6-AD49-4E6A-B4DE-47449D2C622C.

Bleeker, Pieter. 1853. "Bijdrage tot de kennis der Troskieuwige visschen van den Indischen Archipel". Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen. 25:1-30 (ffm01164)

Conservation: Microphis brachyurus is not evaluated by the international union for the conservation of nature in the iucn red list of threatened species.