|Scientific Name:||Syngnathus auliscus (Swain, 1882)|
Siphostoma auliscus Swain, 1882
Siphostoma sinaloae Jordan & Starks, 1896
Syngnathus tweedlei Meek & Hildebrand, 1923
|Taxonomic Source(s):||Swain, J. 1882. A review of the Syngnathinae of the United States, with a description of one new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 5(283): 307-315.|
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Least Concern ver 3.1|
|Contributor(s):||Collette, B.B., Acero, A. & Rojas, P.|
Syngnathus auliscus is a widespread Eastern Pacific pipefish that inhabits shallow waters with vegetation. There are no known major threats to this species, and no current indication of significant population decline from coastal development within its range. It is listed as Least Concern.
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|Range Description:||This species is endemic to the Eastern Pacific region, and is found from Southern California, USA and the Gulf of California, Mexico to northern Peru (Fritzsche 1980, Dawson 1985).|
Native:Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; United States
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:|
Pacific – southeast; Pacific – eastern central
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|Population:||To date there have been no dedicated surveys or population estimates for S. auliscus. Further research is needed in order to determine population size and trends in abundance for this species.|
|Current Population Trend:||Unknown|
|Habitat and Ecology:||This demersal species is usually found among vegetation in bays and estuaries, and occasionally among floating Sargassum species (Dawson 1985). Little is known about its feeding habits, but it likely consumes small benthic and/or planktonic crustaceans such as mysids, harpacticoid copepods, and gammarid shrimp like other pipefishes do (Kendrick and Hyndes 2005, Garcia et al. 2005). They are ovoviviparous, and the males brood embryos beneath their tail prior to giving live birth (Breder and Rosen 1966, Dawson 1985).|
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:||Unknown|
|Use and Trade:||This species was not present in the dried trade from 1998-2001 (Vincent et al. 2011a). It may be used in the aquarium trade as other pipefishes often are Vincent et al. 2011b), but this has not been observed and levels of offtake are unknown.|
|Major Threat(s):||There are no major threats known for this species. However, since it is found in estuaries, coastal development and pollution may be a local threat to this species in some areas of its range.|
|Conservation Actions:||There are no known conservation measures for this species. However, its distribution falls into a number of Marine Protected Areas in the Eastern Tropical Pacific region (WDPA 2006).|
Breder, C.M. and Rosen, D.E. 1966. Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey.
Dawson, C.E. 1985. Indo-Pacific pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Ocean Springs.
Fritzsche, R.A. 1980. Revision of the eastern Pacific Syngnathidae (Pisces: Syngnathiformes), including both recent and fossil forms. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 48: 181-227.
Garcia, A M., Geraldi, R.M. and Vieira, J.P. 2005. Diet composition and feeding strategy of the southern pipefish Syngnathus folletti in a Widgeon grass bed of the Patos Lagoon Estuary, RS, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 3(3): 427-432.
IUCN. 2016. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016-3. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 07 December 2016).
IUCN and UNEP. 2014. The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Cambridge, UK. Available at: www.wdpa.org .
Kendrick, A.J. and Hyndes, G.A. 2005. Variations in the dietary compositions of morphologically diverse syngnathid fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes 72: 415-427.
Nelson, J.N. 2006. Fishes of the World. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.
Robertson, D.R. and Allen, G.R. 2006. Shore fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panamá.
Swain, J. 1882. A review of the Syngnathinae of the United States, with a description of one new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 5(283): 307-315.
Vincent, A.C.J., Foster, S.J. and Koldewey, H.J. 2011a. Conservation and management of seahorses and other Syngnathidae. Journal of Fish Biology 78: 1681-1724.
Vincent, A.C.J., Giles, B.G., Czembor, C.A. and Foster, S.J. 2011b. Trade in seahorses and other syngnathids in non-Asian countries (1998-2001). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 19(1). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia [ISSN 1198-6727].
|Citation:||Pollom, R. 2016. Syngnathus auliscus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T183743A67621986.Downloaded on 18 October 2017.|
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