Spotted pipefish
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Syngnathiformes |
Family: | Syngnathidae |
Genus: | Nerophis |
Species: | N. maculatus
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Binomial name | |
Nerophis maculatus Rafinesque, 1810
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The spotted pipefish, Nerophis maculatus, is a species of Pipefishes, found in the Eastern Atlantic: Portugal and Azores, Mediterranean Sea, especially numerous in its western part and the Adriatic Sea. Ovoviviparous, marine subtropical coastal fish up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in) maximal length. It is inhabits rocky sites of coast, also in aquatic plants and algae, at depth up to 50 metres (160 ft).[2]
References
- ^ Wiswedel, S. (2015). "Nerophis maculatus". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T198763A80250985. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015.RLTS.T198763A80250985.en.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Nerophis maculatus" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
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- Nerophis
- Fauna of the Azores
- Fish of the Adriatic Sea
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- Marine fish of Europe
- Fish described in 1810
- Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque