Caribbean pipefish

Caribbean pipefish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Syngnathiformes
Family:Syngnathidae
Genus:Syngnathus
Species: S. caribbaeus
Binomial name
Syngnathus caribbaeus

Caribbean pipefish (Syngnathus caribbaeus) is a species of the pipefish. Widespread in the Western Atlantic near the coasts of South America from Belize to Suriname, also from the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Marine tropical reef-associated fish, up to 22.5 cm length.

References

  1. Williams, J.T.; Brenner, J. & Pollom, R. (2015). "Syngnathus caribbaeus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T47153711A47461901. Retrieved 6 June 2018.


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