Gales pipefish Campichthys galei: Gale's pipefish is a small species only 60 mm in length. Found from the Freycinet Peninsula, Shark Bay through south-western Australia and into the great Australian Bight. Although previously known in South Australia from only recorded location in South Australia at Boston Island several more specimens have been identified from the collection of the South Australian Museum. Also scattered specimens have recently been reported in trawls from Spencer Gulf, South Australia. Probably localised populations of C. galei  inhabit shallow rubble substrates to 18m depth

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Gales pipefish (Campichthys galei, Duncker 1909) is not well known with few specimens recorded (Browne, 2003, 2004). Gale's Pipefish ranges from the Gulf region of South Australia westward to the Shark Bay area of WA. (Gomon et al., 1994).  In recent years, the most eastern known C. galei have been trawled in Spencer Gulf (B. McDonald, unpublished data, 2001).   Campichthys galei has been found in shallow sub-tidal rubble substrates and adjacent seagrass beds to 18 m (Froese and Pauly, 2005, Kuiter 2003).  There is apparently suitable habitat for C. galei in Gulf St Vincent, whether this gulf will yield specimens remains to be seen.

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