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GBIF·2356569speciesAnimalia247 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderGasterosteiformes
  4. ›familyPegasidae
  5. ›genusPegasus
Pegasus lancifer
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Dragonfish

Pegasus lancifer Kaup, 1861

Also calledPeixe-mariposa-asa-de-dragão (por) · dráček australský (ces) · Морская моль (rus) · 矛海蛾魚 (zho) · 矛海蛾鱼 (zho)

First described in: Kaup, J. J. (1861). Eine neue Art des Genus Pegassus Linn. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> v. 27 (pt 1): 116-117.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2356569.