Microphis pleurostictus explained

Microphis pleurostictus, the Luzon River pipefish (湖沼腹囊海龍),^[1] is a species of freshwater pipefish belonging to the family Syngnathidae.

It can be found only in Batu (Bato) Lake and Yassot Creek located in Luzon, Philippines.^[2] The species is ovoviviparous, where males brood eggs and give birth to live young.^[3]

The IUCN has listed the Luzon River pipefish as an endangered species on the shortlist of the most endangered Syngnathidae-spiecies. Only one pipefish is even more endangered by conservation status: the critically endangered estuarine pipefish, Syngnathus watermeyeri.^[4]

External links

M. pleurostictus at Fishbase

Notes and References

1. https://www.iucn-seahorse.org/pipefishes Pipefishes and Ghost Pipefishes.
2. Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953. Check list of Philippine fishes. Research Report. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S Department of the Interior, USA.
3. Dawson, C.E. 1985. Indo-Pacific Pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
4. https://www.iucn-seahorse.org/most-vulnerable MOST Threatened Species