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Syngnathus rostellatus (Lesser pipefish; Nilsson's pipefish)

Synonyms: Sygnatus rostellatus; Syngnathus dumerilii
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Wikipedia Abstract

The Lesser pipefish or Nilsson's pipefish, Syngnathus rostellatus, is a pipefish similar to the greater pipefish, but with no crest above the head. Usually it reaches up to 17 centimetres (6.7 in) in length, maximally 18 centimetres (7.1 in), although in South Wales they are usually not more than 10 to 13 centimetres (3.9 to 5.1 in) long. They have a light to dark green-brown colour with bar-like markings on the sides (compare the greater pipefish). Lesser pipefish are found all around the British Isles and as far as the French coast .
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central & Western Europe Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom Palearctic Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands    
Northern Baltic Drainages Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden Palearctic Polar Freshwaters    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Acartia clausi[1]
Calanus finmarchicus[1]
Pseudocalanus elongatus[1]
Semibalanus balanoides (Barnacle)[1]

Predators

Merlangius merlangus (Whiting)[1]
Scomber scombrus (Split)[1]
Trachurus trachurus (Scad)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cosmocephalus obvelatus[2]
Gyrodactylus syngnathi[2]
Paracuaria tridentata[2]
Pseudoterranova decipiens[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 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