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Shortfin Pipefish

How to Identify Shortfin Pipefish Underwater

Cosmocampus elucens

Cosmocampus elucens (shortfin pipefish, or Poey’s pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the western Atlantic, off the U.S. east coast, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, throughout the Caribbean Sea, and off the coast of Brazil. It lives in seagrass and algae beds, t...

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