Spotted pipefish
Species of fish
title: "Spotted pipefish" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["nerophis", "fauna-of-the-azores", "fish-of-the-adriatic-sea", "fish-of-the-mediterranean-sea", "marine-fish-of-europe", "fish-described-in-1810", "taxa-named-by-constantine-samuel-rafinesque"] description: "Species of fish" topic_path: "general/nerophis" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_pipefish" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Species of fish ::
| name = Spotted pipefish | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | image = Nerophis maculatus France head.jpg | image2 = Nerophis maculatus France.jpg | taxon = Nerophis maculatus | authority = Rafinesque, 1810 | synonyms = * Nerophis annulatus (Risso, 1827)
- Scyphius annulatus Risso, 1827
- Syngnathus fasciatus Risso, 1810
- Syngnathus papacinus Risso, 1810 | synonyms_ref = The spotted pipefish, Nerophis maculatus, is a species of Pipefishes, found in the Eastern Atlantic: Portugal and Azores, Mediterranean Sea, especially numerous in its western part and the Adriatic Sea. Ovoviviparous, marine subtropical coastal fish up to 15 cm maximal length. It is inhabits rocky sites of coast, also in aquatic plants and algae, at depth up to 50 m.
References
References
- Wiswedel, S.. (2015). "''Nerophis maculatus''". [[The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species]].
- {{FishBase. Nerophis. maculatus. (2018)
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