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The weedy sea dragon or common sea dragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) is a marine fish related to the seahorse. It is the only member of the genus Phyllopteryx. It is found in water 3 to 50 m deep around the southern coastline of Australia, approximately between Port Stephens, New South Wales and Geraldton, Western Australia, as well as around Tasmania. Weedy sea dragons are named for the weed-like projections on their bodies that camouflage them as they move among the seaweed beds where they are usually found. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1024x768, 94 KB) Description: Weedy Seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), Location: Cabbage Tree Bay, Sydney, Australia, Date: 3 January 2005 Photographer: Richard Ling <richard@research. ...
The conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. ...
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Near Threatened (NT) is an conservation status assigned to species or lower taxa which may be considered threatened with extinction in the near future, although it does not currently qualify for the threatened status. ...
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ...
Families Aulostomidae Centriscidae Fistulariidae Solenostomidae Syngnathidae Syngnathiformes is an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the pipefishes and seahorses. ...
Syngnathidae is a family of fishes, including seahorses, pipehorse, pipefish and sea dragons, among others. ...
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Lacépède Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède (December 26, 1756 – October 6, 1825) was a French naturalist. ...
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Marine biology is the scientific study of the plants, animals and other organisms that live in the ocean or any other body of water. ...
A giant grouper at the Georgia Aquarium Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are typically cold-blooded; covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. ...
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Port Stephens is a large coastal inlet and a Shire just north of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia. ...
Location of Geraldton, Western Australia Geraldton ( ) is a city and port in Western Australia located 424 km north of Perth. ...
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An infant Cuttlefish blends into the surrounding sand substrate. ...
Weedy sea dragons can reach 45 cm in length. They feed on tiny crustaceans and other zooplankton, which are sucked into the end of their tube-like snout. Classes & Subclasses Branchiopoda Phyllopoda Sarsostraca Remipedia Cephalocarida Maxillopoda Thecostraca Tantulocarida Branchiura Pentastomida Mystacocarida Copepoda Ostracoda Myodocopa Podocopa Malacostraca Phyllocarida Hoplocarida Eumalacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods, comprising approximately 52,000 described species [1], and are usually treated as a subphylum [2].They include various familiar animals...
Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton is the aggregate community of weakly swimming but mostly drifting small organisms that inhabit the water column of the ocean, seas, and bodies of freshwater. ...
A more cryptic relative of the weedy sea dragon is the leafy sea dragon. In the November 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine, marine biologist Greg Rouse is reported as investigating the DNA variation of the two sea dragon species across their ranges. (this page is about animals that hide or use camouflage. ...
Binomial name Phycodurus eques (Günther, 1865) The leafy sea dragon, Phycodurus eques, is a marine fish related to the seahorse. ...
The National Geographic Magazine, later shortened to National Geographic, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. ...
The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California and Melbourne Aquarium in Australia are the only facilities in the world to have successfully bred weedy sea dragons in captivity. The Aquarium of the Pacific is located in the city of Long Beach, California featuring a collection of over 10,000 fish. ...
The Melbourne Aquarium is an aquarium in central Melbourne, founded in 1999. ...
The weedy sea dragon is the marine emblem of the State of Victoria. Capital Melbourne Government Const. ...
References The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List and Red Data List), created in 1963, is the worlds most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species and can be found here. ...
The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...
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