Vanacampus phillipi

Vanacampus phillipi, also known as the Port Phillip pipefish is a species of marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae.^[1] They can be found inhabiting seaweed and seagrass beds along the southern coast of Australia from Perth to Jervis Bay, New South Wales including the coast of Tasmania.^[2]^[3] Their diet consists of small crustaceans such as copepods, amphipods, and mysid shrimps.^[4]^[5]^[6] Reproduction occurs through ovoviviparity in which the males brood eggs before giving live birth to 50 or less offspring.^[4]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Rachinski, T.; Pollom, R. "Vanacampus phillipi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
^ Dawson, C.E. (1985). Indo-Pacific Pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA: The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.
^ Bray, J.D.; Thompson, V. "Port Phillip Pipefish, Vanacampus phillipi (Lucas 1891)".
^ ^a ^b Howard, R.K.; Koehn, J.D. (1985). "Population dynamics and feeding ecology of pipefish (Syngnathidae) associated with eelgrass beds of Western Port, Victoria". Marine and Freshwater Research. 36 (3): 361–370. doi:10.1071/mf9850361.
^ Edgar, G.J.; Shaw, C. (1995). "The production and tropic ecology of shallow-water fish assemblages in southern Australia. III. General relationships between sediments, seagrasses, invertebrates and fishes". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology: 107–131.
^ Kendrick, A.J.; Hyndes, G.E. (2003). "Patterns in the abundance and size-distribution of syngnathid fishes among habitats in a seagrass-dominated marine environment". Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 56: 1–10.
^ Martin-Smith, K. (2003). Role of syngnathids in shallow coastal ecosystems of southeastern Australia. Cronulla, Australia: ), Towards Ecosystem-based Fishery Management in New South Wales: Proceedings of the Experts and Data Workshop. pp. 89–100.

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