Pacific seaweed pipefish

Pacific seaweed pipefish
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Syngnathiformes
Family:Syngnathidae
Genus:Syngnathus
Species: S. schlegeli
Binomial name
Syngnathus schlegeli
Kaup, 1856
Synonyms[2]
  • Sygnathoides schlegeli (Kaup, 1856)
  • Syngnathus acusimilis Günther, 1873

The Pacific seaweed pipefish (Syngnathus schlegeli) is a species of pipefish, found in the north-western Pacific Ocean, near Vladivostok (Russia), southern to Gulf of Tonkin. It is a marine, oceanic demersal fish, up to 30 centimetres (12 in) length. It is common in beds of Zostera sea grass.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Pollom, R. & Ouyang, L. (2016). "Syngnathus schlegeli". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T188065A67026644. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Syngnathus schlegeli" in FishBase. February 2018 version.


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