Caribbean pipefish

Caribbean pipefish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Subfamily: Syngnathinae
Genus: Syngnathus
Species: S. caribbaeus
Binomial name
Syngnathus caribbaeus
C. E. Dawson, 1979

Caribbean pipefish (Syngnathus caribbaeus) is a species of the pipefishes. Widespread in the Western Atlantic near the coasts of South America from Belize to Suriname, also from the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Marine tropical reef-associated fish, up to 22.5 cm length.

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