Animalia > Chordata > Syngnathiformes > Syngnathidae > Nerophis > Nerophis ophidion

Nerophis ophidion (Straight-nosed pipe-fish; Straight-nosed pipefish; Straightnose pipefish; straightnosed pipefish)

Synonyms: Schyphius littoralis; Scyphicus teres; Scyphius littoralis; Scyphius violaceus; Syngnathus ophidion
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Wikipedia Abstract

Straightnose pipefish (Nerophis ophidion) is a species of pipefish which lives in brackish water in the northeastern Atlantic, the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Seas.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Northern Baltic Drainages Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden Palearctic Polar Freshwaters    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cardigan Bay/ Bae Ceredigion 236876 Wales, United Kingdom
Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol 341177 Wales, United Kingdom  
Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau 360832 Wales, United Kingdom
Ruegen   Germany      

Prey / Diet

Idotea chelipes (brakwaterpissebed)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Perca fluviatilis (River perch)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Bothriocephalus scorpii[2]
Cryptocotyle concava[2]
Diplostomum spathaceum[2]
Echinorhynchus gadi[2]
Podocotyle atomon[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1The role of small fish species in eelgrass food webs of the Baltic Sea, Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Ivo Christian Bobsien, 2006
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0