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Greater Pipefish

Syngnathus acus

Description:

Greater Pipefish. Sea Horse like head, with a body of a snake. (exoskeleton) 200mm long

Habitat:

Seaweed beds. This one was found washed up on the beach

Notes:

Is this a invertabrea?

1 Species ID Suggestions

BenOlivier
BenOlivier 12 years ago
Greater Pipefish
Syngnathus acus Greater pipefish


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3 Comments

BenOlivier
BenOlivier 12 years ago

Thanks Dude!
It looks like a Pipefish. Now to do more reading on it

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 12 years ago

obviously because it is no longer living it would be difficult to I.D. this guy. However, check out this link:
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/speciess...

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 12 years ago

this is definitely a pipefish

BenOlivier
Spotted by
BenOlivier

Knysna Local Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa

Spotted on Oct 30, 2011
Submitted on Nov 1, 2011

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