Stigmatopora

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Syngnathiformes
Subordo: Syngnathoidei

Familia: Syngnathidae
Subfamiliae: Syngnathinae
Genus: Stigmatopora
Species (5): S. argus – S. harastii – S. macropterygia – S. narinosa – S. nigra
Name

Stigmatopora Kaup, 1853: 233

Type species: Syngnathus argus Richardson, 1840, by monotypy.
References
Primary references

Kaup, J.J. 1853. Uebersicht der Lophobranchier. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 19(pt. 1): 226-234.
Short, G. & Trevor-Jones, A. 2020. Stigmatopora harastii, a new species of pipefish in facultative associations with finger sponges and red algae from New South Wales, Australia (Teleostei, Syngnathidae). ZooKeys, 994: 105–123. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.994.57160 Open access Reference page.

Stigmatopora is a genus of pipefishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Species

There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[1][2]

Stigmatopora argus (J. Richardson, 1840) (spotted pipefish)
Stigmatopora harastii Short & Trevor-Jones, 2020 (red wide-bodied pipefish)
Stigmatopora macropterygia A. H. A. Duméril, 1870 (long-snouted pipefish)
Stigmatopora narinosa Browne & K. Smith, 2007 (Southern Gulf pipefish)
Stigmatopora nigra Kaup, 1856 (wide-bodied pipefish)

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Stigmatopora in FishBase. October 2012 version.
Short, Graham; Trevor-Jones, Andrew (2020-11-17). "Stigmatopora harastii, a new species of pipefish in facultative associations with finger sponges and red algae from New South Wales, Australia (Teleostei, Syngnathidae)". ZooKeys (994): 105–123. doi:10.3897/zookeys.994.57160. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 7686221. PMID 33273883.