Pipefish

Description:

Yellowish colour with a dark stripes, long body & tail snake-like, with a dorsal fin as a organ of locomotion, 12cm total large approx.

Habitat:

Spotted at Pulu Cinta - Sulawesi, a sandy atoll reef.

Notes:

Pipefishes or pipe-fishes are a subfamily of small fishes, which, together with the seahorses and seadragons, form the family Syngnathidae. Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Syngnathiformes Family: Syngnathidae Subfamily: Syngnathinae