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n. - Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates.

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  • The pipefish, which is related to the seahorse, has an unusual way of organising childcare.
  • Just out of the corner of my eye — they can hide like pipefish in reeds — but I have seen the movement.
  • Other resident fish species include threespine stickleback, gunnels, sculpin and bay pipefish (Figure 1).
  • Another pipefish, the Longsnout (Syngnathus acus) was common in these rivers and used to co-exist with the River pipefish.
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