Synchiropus minutulus

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Synchiropus minutulus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Callionymidae
Genus: Synchiropus
Species:
S. minutulus
Binomial name
Synchiropus minutulus
R. Fricke, 1981

Synchiropus minutulus, the minute flagfin dragonet, is a species of fish in the dragonet family Callionymidae. It is found in the western Indian Ocean. [1]

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Description

This species reaches a length of 2.3 cm (0.91 in). [2]

Etymology

The fish's name means "very small" or "pygmy". [3]

References

  1. ↑ Randall, J.E. and C. Anderson, 1993. Annotated checklist of the epipelagic and shore fishes of the Maldives Islands. Ichthyol. Bull. of the J.L.B. Smith Inst. of Ichthyol. (59):1-47.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Synchiropus minutulus". FishBase . February 2015 version.
  3. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families DACTYLOPTERIDAE, PEGASIDAE, CALLIONYMIDAE, DRACONETTIDAE and MULLIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 31 January 2023.


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