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Black-striped Pipefish

Syngnathus abaster

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) jessica_peruzzo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ukraine.

Ukraine	57
Russia	34
France	24
Occitanie	21
Odessa Oblast	15
Kyiv	15
Cherkasy Oblast	13
Italy	11
Spain	7
Centro	7

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Chordates · Chordata
Class	Ray-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
Order	Pipefishes and Allies · Syngnathiformes
Family	Pipefishes, Seahorses, and Seadragons · Syngnathidae
Genus	Syngnathus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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