Australian Museum Journal A new pygmy pipehorse (Pisces: Syngnathidae: Idiotropiscis) from eastern Australia
- Shortform:
- Kuiter, 2004, Rec. Aust. Mus. 56(2): 163–165
- Author(s):
- Kuiter, Rudie H.
- Year published:
- 2004
- Title:
- A new pygmy pipehorse (Pisces: Syngnathidae: Idiotropiscis) from eastern Australia
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 2
- Start page:
- 163
- End page:
- 165
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1420
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 07 July 2004
- Cover date:
- 07 July 2004
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 07 July 2004
- Available online:
- 07 July 2004
- Reference number:
- 1420
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (11kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (223kb PDF)
Abstract
A new species of pygmy pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri, is described from a female and two male specimens collected in the Sydney region, New South Wales, Australia. It can be distinguished from its congeners, I. australe (Waite & Hale, 1921) and I. larsonae (Dawson, 1984), in having a shorter and more posteriorly positioned frontal ridge dorsally on the head, a very short trunk (slightly longer than head, versus clearly longer than head), and in having a longer snout (2.2-2.6 in head, versus 2.8-3.2 in I. australe and 3.7-3.8 in I. larsonae).