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Pegasus nanhaiensis Zhang, Wang & Lin, 2020

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> Dactylopteriformes (Flying gurnards) > Pegasidae (Seamoths)
Etymology: Pegasus: Taken form the winged horse of Perseus in the ancient Greek, mithology (Ref. 45335); nanhaiensis: Named for the South China Sea, where the holotype was collected.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino demersal; rango de profundidad 17 - 23 m (Ref. 131072). Tropical

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Pacific Oceaan: China.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.8 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 131072); 6.2 cm SL (female)

Short description Claves de identificación | Morfología | Morfometría

This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the following set of characters: a rounded hump-like tubercle on each of dorsal plates I, II, and III; clear hexagonal patterns in surface dorsal plate with a clear boundary; two paired caudolateral plates overlapping the junctions between tail rings II and III, and IV and V; formation of a bulge at the margin of the ventral plate that connected to the paired pelvic fins, and four strong rounded tubercles in the concave margin of the occipital (Ref. 131072).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Collected by trawl from mud bottoms (Ref. 131072).

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Zhang, R., Z. Wang, S. Wan, S. Ma and Q. Lin, 2020. A new species of Pegasus (Syngnathiformes: Pegasidae) from the South China Sea. Zootaxa 4894(4):521-534. (Ref. 131072)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01000 (0.00244 - 0.04107), b=3.04 (2.81 - 3.27), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).
Nivel trófico (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).