Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Opossum pipefish

  FAMILY -               Syngnathidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Microphis brachyurus lineatus

  SYNONYMS - Doryichthys lineatu- Valenciennes 1856

  REFERENCES - 01

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               1
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Burdon Canal Nature Reserve           Collected as voucher                  1
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Sibun River                          1
  Coastal                              1
  

  Elevation        Reference

  1-200 m               1
  201-400 m             1
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15'           1
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 10' to 88 30'           1
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45'           1
  17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45'           1
  16 45' to 17 00'; 88 30' to 88 45'           1
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical     1
  Subtropical wet                              1
  Subtropical moist                            1
  

  References

  1  Greenfield, D. W., J. E. Thomerson. 1997. Fishes of the Continental
     Waters of Belize.  University of Florida Press.