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Minyichthys myersi

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Minyichthys myersi, also known as Myer's pipefish, is a species of marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae.^[1] They can be found inhabiting coral in many areas of the Indo-Pacific including Mauritius, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and French Polynesia.^[2]^[3] Their diet likely consists of small crustaceans such as copepods and amphipods.^[4] Reproduction occurs through ovoviviparity in which the males brood eggs before giving live birth.^[2]

The fish is named in honor of George S. Myers (1905-1985), from Stanford University.^[5]

^ ^a ^b Pollom, R. "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
^ ^a ^b Dawson, C.E. (1985). Indo-Pacific Pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA: The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory.
^ Randall, J.E.; Mckeon, C.S.; Anker, A.; Bacchet, P. (2010). "First records of the pipefishes Minyichthys myersi and Micrognathus andersonii from the Society Islands". Cybium. 34 (3): 315–316.
^ Kendrick, A.J.; Hyndes, G.A. (2005). "Variations in the dietary compositions of morphologically diverse syngnathid fishes". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 72 (4): 415–427. doi:10.1007/s10641-004-2597-y. S2CID 23797922.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families AULOSTOMIDAE, CENTRISCIDAE, FISTULARIIDAE, SOLENOSTOMIDAE and SYNGNATHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 February 2023.

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Minyichthys myersi, also known as Myer's pipefish, is a species of marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae. They can be found inhabiting coral in many areas of the Indo-Pacific including Mauritius, Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and French Polynesia. Their diet likely consists of small crustaceans such as copepods and amphipods. Reproduction occurs through ovoviviparity in which the males brood eggs before giving live birth.