Species Corythoichthys flavofasciatus (Rüppell, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corythoichthys flavofasciatus Rüppell, W.P.E. 1838. Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig. Fische des Rothen Meeres. Frankfurt Vol. 4, pp. 81–148, pls 22–33. [144].

  Type data:

   Neotype USNM 214919 (original description from Red Sea based on drawing), El -Tor, north of Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Gulf of Suez, Red Sea.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Dawson, C.E. 1977. Review of the pipefish genus Corythoichthys with description of three new species. Copeia 1977(2): 295-338 figs 1-21 [309].

Generic Combinations

• Corythoichthys flavofasciatus (Rüppell, 1838). —
  Dawson, C.E. 1977. Review of the pipefish genus Corythoichthys with description of three new species. Copeia 1977(2): 295-338 figs 1-21 [306]

Introduction

Many authors have considered C. conspicillatus species to be a junior synonym of C. flavofasciatus with a wide Indo-Pacific distribution (Smith 1963, Dawson 1977, 1985). Herald (1953) treated Red Sea and central Pacific populations as distinct subspecies with C. flavofasciatus conspicillatus (Jenyns 1842) from the central Pacific, and Kuiter 2000 treated ,C. conspicillatus as a valid species from the Coral Sea to the central Pacific, with C. flavofasciatus restricted to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Tentatively we include records here from Cocos (Keeling) Islands as C. flavofasciatus.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, Indian Ocean and Red Sea

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef.

General References

Kuiter, R.H. 2000. Seahorses, Pipefishes and Their Relatives. Chorleywood, UK : TMC Publishing 240 pp.

Kuiter, R.H. 2009. Seahorses and their relatives. Seaford, Australia : Aquatic Photographics pp. 331. [192]

Common Name References

Kuiter, R.H. 2000. Seahorses, Pipefishes and Their Relatives. Chorleywood, UK : TMC Publishing 240 pp. [108] (Yellow-banded Pipefish)

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