Estuarine pipefish  (Syngnathus watermeyeri)

Description

This slender, cylindrical fish was believed to be extinct in the early 1990s until a miraculous rediscovery in 1995 (3), but the population remains teetering on the very brink of extinction. The long, cylindrical body is a characteristic pipefish shape (4). It is a greenish brown colour and there are dark lines visible on the head and paler lines along the body (2).

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