Species: Bryx dunckeri, Pugnose pipefish
snout short, depth 59% length
dark blotch behind eye
D 21-27
sometimes white rings
Bryx dunckeri (Metzelaar, 1919)
Pugnose pipefish
Head ~9.2% of SL; snout short, upturned, depth 59% of its length, with low, finely serrated ridge along top; a ridge along top of operculum; dorsal 21-27 rays; pectoral 9-13 rays; no anal fin; no pelvic fins; tail fin 10 rays; 15-18 trunk rings, 30-36 tail rings; ridges on upper body and tail not joined; ridge on mid side of body straight, ends near anus; lower body ridge joins lower tail ridge; brood pouch under tail, with semi-overlapping plates pouch under tail rings 14-19.
Color highly variable, pale to reddish brown, blotched and mottled, sometimes with whitish rings; usually a dark stripe along side of snout, radiating darks streaks from eye, a dark blotch behind eye, sometimes with a pale blotch below that; occasionally with 6-8 small brown spots near middle of each ring; fins plain or rays spotted with brown.
Reaches 7.5 cm.
Seagrass and calcareous algae, sometimes in floating Sargassum; brackish to marine.
Depth range: 1-72 m.
North Carolina to Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Flotsam
- Soft bottom only
- Submerged vegetation
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Water column
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends South of GC
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- All species..
- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- Extends N + S of GC
- Extends North of GC
- Also in Brazil
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 7.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 72
