Minyichthys sentus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Pollom, R. |date=2014 |title=Minyichthys sentus |volume=2014 |page=e.T18258153A46263285 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T18258153A46263285.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| taxon = Minyichthys sentus

| authority = C. E. Dawson, 1982 {{cite iucn |last1=Pollom |first1=R. |title=The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18258153/46263285 |access-date=20 August 2019}}

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Minyichthys sentus is a species of marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae. Little is known about this species preferred habitat and their proposed geographic distribution is based on only three specimens, two found in the Atlantic near Southern Spain and one found in the Mediterranean near Gibraltar. They have been recorded at depths of up to 170 meters.{{cite journal|last1=Dawson|first1=C.E.|date=1982|title=Descriptions of Cosmocampus retropinnis sp. n., Minyichthys sentus sp. n. and Amphelikturus sp. (Pisces, Syngnathidae) from the eastern Atlantic region|journal=Zoologica Scripta|volume=11|issue=2|pages=135–140|doi=10.1111/j.1463-6409.1982.tb00526.x |s2cid=84299469 }}{{cite journal|last1=Dawson|first1=C.E.|date=1983|title=Western Atlantic Occurrence of the Genus Minyichthys (Pisces: Syngnathidae), with description of M. inusitatus n. sp.|journal=Copeia|volume=1983|issue=3|pages=774–776|doi=10.2307/1444345 |jstor=1444345 }}