elegant pipefish

Nannocampus elegans

Pipefish beneath the South African Coast

elegant pipefish is a marine fish of Western Indian Ocean. The species occupies reef habitat. The largest recorded length is 12 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Pipefishes and Allies
Family: Syngnathidae
Genus: Nannocampus
Maximum length: 12 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: anguilliform
Distribution: Western Indian Ocean: Inhaca Island, Mozambique to Great Fish Point, South Africa.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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