Long-snouted pipefish
The long-snouted pipefish, Stigmatopora macropterygia, is a pipefish of the family Syngnathidae, found around New Zealand including the Auckland Islands, at depths of a few metres.[2][3] Its length is up to 45 centimetres (18 in).
| Long-snouted pipefish | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | Syngnathidae |
| Genus: | Stigmatopora |
| Species: | S. macropterygia |
| Binomial name | |
| Stigmatopora macropterygia A. H. A. Duméril, 1870 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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See also
- Longsnout pipefish, Leptonotus norae
References
- Carlyle, C. & Pollom, R. (2016). "Stigmatopora macropterygia (errata version published in 2017)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T88342975A115514525. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T88342975A88342982.en.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Stigmatopora macropterygia" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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