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Whitenose Pipefish

Cosmocampus albirostris

Classification

Cosmocampus albirostris (white-nose pipefish) is a marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, along the US coast from North Carolina to Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Yucatán Peninsula to Cuba, in the Caribbean from Puerto Rico to Grenada, and along Central and South America to southern Brazil. It lives among coral reefs, sea floor rubble, and sparse algae to depths of about 40 metres (130 ft), where it can grow to lengths of 20 centimetres (7.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 7Netherlands · 6Mexico · 5France · 4Brazil · 2