Syngnathidae

Redstripe pipefish

Dunckerocampus baldwini

Males bear live young in pouches

• Red
• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Southeast Asia
• Anguilliform
• Small
• Tropical fish

The redstripe pipefish (Dunckerocampus baldwini) is a fish from the genus Dunckerocampus. Dunckerocampus baldwini is found in caves, rocky crevices, and the seaward slopes of coral reefs and it is an active cleaner which has been recorded cleaning small parasitic crustaceans on cave cardinal fish (Zapogon evermanni) and a moray eel (Gymnothorax sp.). It has also been reported associating with iridescent cardinalfish (Pristiapogon kallopterus) and Hawaiian squirrelfish (Sargocentron xantherythrum) It is an ovoviviparous species, in which the males brood fertilised eggs in a pouch beneath their trunk before giving live birth.