Southern Gulf pipefish

The Southern Gulf pipefish lives in the demersal, marine, depth range 1 - 5 m environment.

Like all Stigmatopora species the southern gulf pipefish has a long thin prehensile tail. Image by Kevin Smith. Investigation of the South Australian Museum specimens showed a pipefish species that had been unrecognized since 1981 when SCUBA divers discovered the first specimen. More

Stigmatopora narinosa, Southern Gulf pipefish (Browne and Smith, in description). Stigmatopora spp. do not have a caudal (tail) fin, and brood on the tail. They share this characteristic with the seahorses (Hippocampus spp. More

Rationale: Southern Gulf Pipefish is included here because (i) it is a species of syngnathid, from a family whose members are considered to have vulnerable population characteristics; (ii) it appears to be endemic within South Australia (and is known particularly from the gulfs More

southern gulf pipefish is only found in a narrow zone of sheltered inshore habitat on moderate energy coast in the two South Australian Gulfs. More

The southern gulf pipefish was described in December 2007 in the Memoirs of Museum Victoria. No other pipefish has been described in southern Australia since 1975. More

Common names

Southern Gulf pipefish in English

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