The estuarine pipefish or river pipefish (Syngnathus watermeyeri) is a species of fish in the family Syngnathidae. It is endemic to South Africa and has been sporadically recorded in the estuarine portions of the Kariega, Kasouga, Bushmans, East Kleinemonde and West Kleinemonde rivers. It can be readily distinguished from another southern African pipefish with which it shares its habitat, S. temminckii, by its much shorter snout. The estuarine pipefish is most commonly found in beds of the eelgrass Zostera capensis.[2]
The estuarine pipefish was declared extinct in 1994, but was rediscovered in 2006[3] in areas where it had not been reported in over four decades. This pipefish is Critically Endangered due to both natural and human threats to the brackish estuaries and local eelgrass beds in which it lives.[1]
The type was a female of 110 millimetres (4.3 in) collected in the Bushmans River and sent to J.L.B. Smith by F.L.E. Watermeyer, whom Smith honoured in the newly described species' specific name.[4]
Referencesedit
^ abPollom, R. (2017). "Syngnathus watermeyeri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T41030A67621860. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T41030A67621860.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Syngnathus watermeyeri" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
^P.D. Vorwerk; P.W. Froneman; A.W. Paterson (2007). "Recovery of the critically endangered river pipefish, Syngnathus watermeyeri, in the Kariega Estuary, Eastern Cape province". South African Journal of Science. 103: 199–291.
^J.L.B. Smith (1963). "Fishes of the family Syngnathidae from the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean". Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University. 27: 515–543.
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