Longsnout pipefish
Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Speciesbox The longsnout pipefish (Leptonotus norae) is a pipefish of the family Syngnathidae. It has only been recorded from midwater and bottom trawls at depths of Script error: No such module "convert".. The habitat and biology of this species are almost unknown but juveniles have been recorded in the stomachs of blue penguins and Snares penguins.[1]
Etymology
The fish is named per Waite in 1911: “I have associated with this pretty species the name of Miss Nora Niven,” for whom the trawler Nora Niven, from which the type specimen was collected, was named; Nora was the youngest daughter of James Just Niven (1856-1913) the owner of the Napier Fish Supply Company in Napier, New Zealand, from whom Waite “received many kindnesses while in Napier”.[2]
See also
- Long-snouted pipefish, Stigmatopora macropterygia A. H. A. Duméril.
- Longsnout pipefish, Syngnathus temminckii Kaup, 1856.
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