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Click on images to enlarge. © Copyright Ross Robertson, 2006 · 12 Cosmocampus arctus © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Cosmocampus arctus © Copyright Gerald Allen, 2006 · 0 Cosmocampus arctus © Copyright Gerald Allen, 2006 · 0 Cosmocampus see all kinds   •  4 thumbnails  •  slide show Kinds Cosmocampus albirostris, Whitenose Pipefish Cosmocampus arctus, Snubnose Pipefish Cosmocampus arctus_arctus, Snubnose Pipefish Cosmocampus arctus_coccineus Cosmocampus arctus_heraldi Cosmocampus balli, Balls Pipe Fish Cosmocampus banneri, Rough-ridge Pipefish Cosmocampus brachycephalus, Crested Pipefish Cosmocampus darrosanus, Whiteface Pipefish Cosmocampus elucens, Shortfin Pipefish Cosmocampus hildebrandi, Dwarf Pipefish Cosmocampus howensis, Lord Howe Pipefish Cosmocampus investigatoris Cosmocampus maxweberi, Maxweber' s Pipefish Cosmocampus profundus, Deepwater Pipefish Cosmocampus retropinnis español Overview Main identification features snout short; skin flaps near eye, on body c: small ridge on operculum anal fin has 2-4 rays COSMOCAMPUS PIPEFISHES Upper trunk and tail ridges not joined; ridge on flank of body straight, ends near anus; lower trunk and tail ridges joined; ridge on center of snout spiny; operculum usually with longitudinal ridge angled up towards gill opening; main body ridges sometimes with spines at end of rings; usually with skin flaps; trunk rings 14-18; dorsal 16-30 rays; anal 2-4 rays; tail 10 rays; brood pouch under tail, with folds. A circumtropical genus with 13 species; the tropical eastern Pacific contains one endemic species with three subspecies. References Béarez, P., 1996., Lista de los Peces Marinos del Ecuador Continental., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44:731-741. Dawson, C.E., 1985., Indo-Pacific Pipefishes., Gulf Coast Research laboratory:230. De la Cruz , J. , Galvan , F. , Abitia , L. A. , Rodriguez , J. and Gutierrez, F. J., 1994., Lista sistematica de los peces marinos de Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico). Systematic List of marine fishes from Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur (Mexico)., Ciencias Marinas, 20:17-31. Eschmeyer , W. N. , Herald , E. S. and Hamman, H., 1983., A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Peterson Field Guide Ser. 28., Houghton Mifflin:336pp. Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional. Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398. Hildebrand, S.F., 1946., A descriptive catalog of the shore fishes of Peru., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 189:1-530. Jenkins , O.P. and Evermann, B.W., 1889., Description of eighteen new species of fishes from the Gulf of California., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 11:137-158. Jimenez-Prado, P., Béarez, P., 2004., Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / Marine fishes of continental Ecuador., SIMBIOE/NAZCA/IFEA tomo 1 y 2. Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26. Love, M.S., Mecklenburg, C.W., Mecklenburg, T.A., Thorsteinson, L.K., 2005., es of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Artic Ocena species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon border., U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, 288pp. Thomson , D.A. , Findley , L.T. and Kerstitch, A.N., 2000., Reef fishes of the Sea of Cortez., University of Texas Press(Revised Ed.):353. Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224. Villareal-Cavazos, A., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Bermúdez-Almada, B. and Arizpe-Covarrubias, O., 2000., Los peces del arrecife de Cabo Pulmo, Golfo de California, México: Lista sistemática y aspectos de abundancia y biogeografía., Rev. Biol. Trop., 48:413-424. Acknowledgements Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page. Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Updated: 2024-06-05 22:14:03 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation