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 › Abécédaire › Greater pipefish
Mediterranean species :

Greater pipefish

This fish looks like a small snake but belongs to the same family as seahorses
Did you know ?
Like its cousin the seahorse, the male incubates the eggs, which the female lays in its brood pouch during mating.

The great or greater pipefish is a member of the Syngnathidae family. It lives in Posidonia seagrass and cymodoceaceae meadows or on sandy bottoms at depths down to around 100 metres. In these meadows, its elongated body and grey-brown colour with yellow, pink or greenish hues provide perfect camouflage among the leaves, allowing it to surprise small crustaceans and fry that pass within its reach. It can measure forty about centimetres long. This Mediterranean fish is also found in the Black Sea and in the Atlantic, all the way from Norway to South Africa.

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Phylum: Vertebrates
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Scientific name: Syngnathus acus

French: Aiguillette
Spanish: Mula
Italian: Pesce ago
German: Grosse Seenadel

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