Enneacampus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1910) Recherche rapide

Attributs

  • DISTRIBUTION: Lien Faunafri
  • Colour pattern : Lévêque, 1992a | Lévêque & Paugy, 2003c | Snoeks & Vreven, 2007 .
  • Common names : Punavatsaneula (Finnish), Kleine SüBwassernadel (German), Musongo (Kombe: Equatorial Guinea) .
  • Current distribution known : present along the western coast of Africa from the Gambia River drainage (Gambia) to the Cuanza River (Angola) .
  • Distribution_references : Lévêque, 1992a | Lévêque & Paugy, 2003c | Snoeks & Vreven, 2007 .
  • Food habits : feeds (mainly) on copepod .
  • Food habits_references : Snoeks & Vreven, 2007 .
  • Habitat / home range : adults occur in coastal rivers, streams and swamps. Seems confined to fresh water habitats .
  • Habitat_references : Snoeks & Vreven, 2007 .
  • Morphology / anatomy : Lévêque, 1992a | Lévêque & Paugy, 2003c | Snoeks & Vreven, 2007 .
  • Reproduction : breeds in fresh water. Male carries the eggs in a brood pouch which is found under the tail and it was) reported 17-36 postlarvae in the brood pouch of males of 75.5-82.5 mm SL; a larger male (136.4 mm SL) caught in a swampy area about 200 m from the coast of Bioko Island (formerly Fernando Poo), has its brood pouch filled with several hundred postlarvae .
  • Reproduction_references : Snoeks & Vreven, 2007 .
  • Size : 136 mm SL .
  • Types :
    • Syngnathus ansorgii Boulenger, 1910 d: 559. Type locality: "Quanza River at Dundo". Holotype BMNH n° 1911.6.1: 129.
    • Syngnathus olssoni Johnels, 1954: 399, fig. 18. Type locality: "in creeks from the Farida and Alikiama swamps (Gambia River)". Holotype and paratypes (3) NRMS n° 11.151.
    • Syngnathus pulchellus Boulenger, 1915 c: 88, fig. 74. Type locality: "Gabon, Cameroon". Syntypes BMNH n° 1874.6.8: 20 (1), BMNH n° 1888. 12.13: 41 (1).