Microphis pleurostictus

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| genus = Microphis

| species = pleurostictus

| authority = Peters 1868 Rachinski, T. & Pollom, R. 2016. Microphis pleurostictus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T65403327A67624848. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-1.RLTS.T65403327A67624848.en. Downloaded on 09 January 2019.

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Microphis pleurostictus, the Luzon River pipefish (湖沼腹囊海龍),[https://www.iucn-seahorse.org/pipefishes Pipefishes and Ghost Pipefishes.] IUCN. Retrieved 16. February 2022. is a species of freshwater pipefish belonging to the family Syngnathidae.

It can be found only in Batu (Bato) Lake and Yassot Creek located in Luzon, Philippines.Herre, A.W.C.T. 1953. Check list of Philippine fishes. Research Report. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S Department of the Interior, USA. The species is ovoviviparous, where males brood eggs and give birth to live young.Dawson, C.E. 1985. Indo-Pacific Pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.

The IUCN has listed the Luzon River pipefish as an endangered species on the shortlist of the most endangered Syngnathidae species. Only one pipefish is even more endangered by conservation status: the critically endangered estuarine pipefish, Syngnathus watermeyeri.[https://www.iucn-seahorse.org/most-vulnerable MOST Threatened Species] IUCN. Retrieved 16. February 2022.