Tiger Pipefish

Filicampus tigris

• Group: Seahorse
• Typical depth: 2 to 27 m
• Max size: 29.6 cm
• For divers: safe
• IUCN status: LC

A long slender pipefish that hunts over mud, sand, rubble and rock down to around twenty seven metres. As in its kin, the male does the parenting, carrying the eggs in a brood pouch beneath his tail until they hatch.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Teleostei › Syngnathiformes › Syngnathidae › Filicampus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 280779.