Vanacampus

Genus of fishes

Vanacampus
Vanacampus vercoi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Subfamily: Syngnathinae
Genus: Vanacampus
Whitley, 1951
Type species
Syngnathus vercoi
Waite & Hale, 1921

Vanacampus is a genus of pipefishes endemic to the ocean waters around the Australian coasts.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Vanacampus margaritifer (W. K. H. Peters, 1868) (mother-of-pearl pipefish)
  • Vanacampus phillipi (A. H. S. Lucas, 1891) (Port Phillip pipefish)
  • Vanacampus poecilolaemus (W. K. H. Peters, 1868)
  • Vanacampus vercoi (Waite & Hale, 1921) (Verco's pipefish)

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Vanacampus in FishBase. October 2012 version.
Taxon identifiers
Vanacampus


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