Pipe fish

The Pipe fish lives in the benthopelagic, freshwater, pH range: 6.5, dH range: 6 environment.

Description: The pipe fish is one of the "tubemouthed" fishes, the other being the seahorse. All tubemouthed fishes have the tubelike snout in common which they use to vacuum up their food by rapid intakes of water. More

Some pipe fishes have a small hump located just behind the eyes; others have long snouts. The whole fish is used as a medicinal. It is caught, cleaned, then dried in the sun and used either whole, or as a powder. More

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The Pipe Fishes, not only in their shape and colour but also in their slowly swaying action, bear a marked resemblance to the fronds of seaweed among which they live. More

Pipe Fish is the dried body of Solenognaths hardwickii (Gray), Syngnathoides biaculeatus (Bloch) or Syngnathus acus Linnaeus (Fam. syngnathidae). Action: To warm the kidney and promote virility, to reduce nodulation, and to induce subsidence of swelling. More

The most spectacular of the Ghost Pipe Fishes is the Ornate or Harlequin Ghost Pipe Fish. Once again, when Robert pointed out the fish, it took me some time to realise what I was looking at. More

What is pipe fish? What is it used for? Pipe fish is a type of fish that is closely related to the sea horse. There are an estimated 200 varieties of pipe fish, including a few varieties that live in fresh water. More

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Common names

Armoured stickleback in English
Burma-Stichling in German (Deutsch)
Burmaspigg in Swedish (Svenska)
Panserhundestejle in Danish (dansk)
Piikkineula in Finnish (suomen kieli)
Pipe fish in English
甲刺魚 in Mandarin Chinese
甲刺魚 in Unknown
甲刺鱼 in Mandarin Chinese
甲刺鱼 in Unknown

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Order : Gasterosteiformes
Family : Indostomidae
Genus : Indostomus
Species : Indostomus paradoxus
Authority : Prashad & Mukerji, 1929