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Helmethead Sea Muppet
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Helmethead Sea Muppet

Australyichthys aegis

The helmethead sea Muppet (Australyichthys aegis) is a species of ray-finned fish in the sea Muppet genus Australyichthys (family Syngnathidae). Like other members of this genus, it has a superficially seahorse-like morphology, a result of convergent evolution of Australyichthys species on members of the genus Hippocampus. It is known from a single specimen incidentally collected by dredging activity off the coast of South Australia. The species has not been recorded since, in part because it occupies...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1702356.