Deep-bodied pipefish

Deep-bodied pipefish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Syngnathiformes
Family:Syngnathidae
Genus:Leptonotus
Species: L. blainvilleanus
Binomial name
Leptonotus blainvilleanus
(Eydoux & Gervais, 1837)
Synonyms[2]
  • Acmonotus chilensis Philippi, 1896
  • Hemithylacus petersii Dumeril, 1870
  • Syngnathus blainvilleanus Eydoux & Gervais, 1837
  • Syngnathus acicularis Jenyns, 1842

The deep-bodied pipefish (Leptonotus blainvilleanus) is a pipefish in the family Syngnathidae (seahorses and pipefishes). These benthic fishes are found in estuaries and coastal waters of South America, from southern Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean to southern Chile in the Pacific Ocean.

References

  1. ↑ Pollom, R. (2016). "Leptonotus blainvilleanus (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T65369760A115425564. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Leptonotus blainvilleanus" in FishBase. February 2018 version.


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