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SOUTHERN AUSTRALASIAN

PIPEFISH, PIPE-HORSES AND

PYGMY-PIPEHORSES

The table shows the pipefish, pipe-horses and pygmy-pipehorses of Southern Australasia

The opportunities for divers to discover new species of fish, even in very well known areas, was shown in South Australia in 2003 when a new species of pipefish have been found on the metropolitan shoreline of Adelaide the Capital City. These discoveries and others in the Gobies, Clingfish, and three fins suggest that there must be numerous unnamed inshore demersal fish in the more isolated regions of southern Australasia

 

Pipefish

Vanacampus vercoi

 

long  snout pipefish Vanacampus poeciloleamus

 

 Vanacampus phillipi

 

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Gale's 1909                                  Campichthys galei
Tiger 1879                                      Filicampus tigris

Upside-down 1975                        

Heraldia sp.  (nocturna)

Eastern upside-down 1975          

Heraldia nocturna
Brigg's crested 1914     Histiogamphelus briggsii
Rhino  - Macleay's crested 1882  Histiogamphelus cristatus
Knife-snout 1921           Hypselognathus rostratus

Deep-body 1921                            

Kaupus costatus

Trawl 1980                                    

Kimblaeus bassensis
Brush-tail 1853      Leptoichthys fistularius

High-body 1872                             

Leptonotus elevatus
New Zealand long-snout 1910  Leptonotus noea
Smooth 1921  Lissocampus caudalis
New Zealand's short-snout 1870  Lissocampus filum
Javelin 1931  Lissocampus runa

Saw-tooth 1948                         

Maroubra perserrata
Mollison's 1955  Mitotichthys mollisoni

Half-banded 1853 

Mitotichthys semistriatus
Tucker's 1942   Mitotichthys tuckeri
Red 1886   Notiocampus ruber 
Pug-nose 1872    Pugnaso curtirostris
Spotted 1872       Stigmatopora argus

New Zealand smooth 1870            

Stigmatopora  macropterygia

Southern Gulf   2006                

Stigmatopora narinosa
Wide-body 1856     Stigmatopora nigra
Novel Type 1                                     Stigmatopora nov. sp

Ring-back 1918                             

Stipecampus cristatus

Hairy 1872                                       

Urocampus carinirostris

Mother-of-Pearl 1869                      

Vanacampus  margaritifer

Pt Phillip 1891                              

Vanacampus phillipi

Long-snout 1869                             

Vanacampus poecilolaemus

Verco's 1921                                 

Vanacampus vercoi

Pygmy Pipe-horse

Southern Pygmy 1921                                Idiotropiscis australus

DEEP WATER SPECIES

Pipe-horses

Robust Spiny 1911             

Solegnathus robustus
Australian Spiny 1870   Solegnathus spinosissimus
Shaggy 198 Hypselognathus horridus

New Zealand Spiny 1941               

Solegnathus naso