Slender snipefish

Slender snipefish

Taxobox
name = Slender snipefish


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Syngnathiformes
familia = Centriscidae
subfamilia = Macroramphosinae
genus = "Macroramphosus"
species = "M. gracilis"
binomial = "Macroramphosus gracilis"
binomial_authority = (Lowe, 1839)

The slender snipefish or snipefish, "Macroramphosus gracilis", is a snipefish of the genus "Macroramphosus", found worldwide at depths to 350 m. Its length is up to 15 cm.

The slender snipefish is a moderately elongate species with a tubular snout equal to about a fifth of the total body length. On the centrally placed first dorsal fin the second spine is thick and elongate, but not as long as in other similar species.

The colour is red above, paler below.

They feed on bottom-living invertebrates, but may also pick individual animals from the plankton.

References

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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8


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