Acentronura breviperula Short-pouch Pygmy Pipehorse

Acentronura breviperula is commonly referred to as Short-pouch Pygmy Pipehorse. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

9475 

AphiaID:

309247 

Scientific:

Acentronura breviperula 

German:

Seenadel 

English:

Short-pouch Pygmy Pipehorse 

Category:

Nålefisker 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Syngnathiformes (Order) > Syngnathidae (Family) > Acentronura (Genus) > breviperula (Species) 

Initial determination:

Fraser-Brunner & Whitley, 1949 

Occurrence:

Sudan, Suez-Kanal, Kuwait, Djibouti, Eritrea, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate, (the) Maldives, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arabian Sea, Australia, Bahrain, Bali, Bangladesh, Borneo (Kalimantan), Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Egypt, Great Barrier Reef, Gulf of Oman / Oman, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Java, Jordan, Kenya, Laccadive Sea, Lembeh Strait, Lesser Sunda Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Papua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Quatar, Queensland (Australia), Rodriguez, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Tansania, Thailand, Timor, Vietnam, Yemen 

Marine Zone:

Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 

Sea depth:

1 - 47 Meter 

Size:

up to 1.97" (5 cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Copepods, Daphnia salina, Invertebrates, Mysis, Zooplankton 

Difficulty:

There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Acentronura breviperula
  Seenadel
• 
  Acentronura gracilissima
  Japanisches Zwerg-Nadelpferdchen
• 
  Acentronura tentaculata
  Haariges Zwerg-Nadelpferdchen

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2016-03-10 19:10:25 

Last edit:

2018-03-12 10:16:23 

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