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Syngnathidae
Brown-banded pipefish
Corythoichthys amplexus
Red brown bands of three rings
- Brown
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Anguilliform
- Small
- Tropical fish
Brown
Tropical
Regional distribution
Anguilliform
SmallBrown-banded pipefish is known from Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Corythoichthys
- Maximum length
- 10 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: East Africa to Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef. Record from the Mascarenes (Ref. 9408 ) is apparently erroneous (Ref. 33390 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
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