Species: Syngnathus dawsoni, Antillean pipefish
trunk rings 16-18
Syngnathus dawsoni (Herald, 1969)
Antillean pipefish
Snout long, and slender; narrow vertical bone in front of eye; no ridge above operculum, or along side of snout; ridges along top of snout and head low; opercular ridge inconspicuous, only on front 1/3 of opercle in adults; dorsal fin 28-31, fin origin on trunk, well before anus; anal fin 2-4; pectoral fin 12-14; no pelvic fins; tail fin 10; main body ridges without indentations at ring edges; ridge along side of body ends under dorsal fin, not joining that along side of tail; upper ridge of body discontinuous with that of tail just behind dorsal fin; ridges along bottom of body and tail joined; trunk rings 16-18; tail rings 33-36, no skin flaps; brood pouch under tail, its plates folded inwards.
Light tan, darker above, snout with a brown stripe along its side; a brown stripe along flank from pectoral to tail fin base, sometimes dark-edged pale bars on lower body.
Reaches 18 cm.
Bays, on weedy and seagrass bottoms.
Depth: 0.5-7 m.
Eastern Caribbean.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Submerged vegetation
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Bony fishes
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Live birth
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- GC endemic
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Island (s) only
- Antilles endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 18
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 7
