Worm pipefish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Syngnathiformes |
Family: | Syngnathidae |
Genus: | Nerophis |
Species: | N. lumbriciformis
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Binomial name | |
Nerophis lumbriciformis (Jenyns, 1835)
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The worm pipefish (Nerophis lumbriciformis) is a species of pipefish (of the family Syngnathidae), found in the North-eastern Atlantic along the coasts of Europe from the southern Norway, Kattegat and British Islands to Río de Oro in Western Sahara. The fish has a length of up to 15 cm. It inhabits rocky coastal areas with macrophytes at depths to 30 m.
The worm pipefish feeds primarily on Harpacticoid and cyclopoid copepods[3]
Like other pipefish, this species is sex role-reversed, with females courting males whom subsequently brood the young.[4]