''Cosmocampus'' is a

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pipefish Pipefishes or pipe-fishes (Syngnathinae) are a subfamily of small fishes, which, together with the seahorses and seadragons ('' Phycodurus'' and '' Phyllopteryx''), form the family Syngnathidae. Description Pipefish look like straight-bodied se ...

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Species

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus: * ''

Cosmocampus albirostris ''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 C ...

'' ( Kaup, 1856) (Whitenose pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus arctus ''Cosmocampus arctus'' (snubnose pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found from Tomales Bay, California, to Mazatlan, Mexico, and throughout the Gulf of California. It lives on rocky or coral reefs, among ...

'' ( O. P. Jenkins & Evermann, 1889) (Snubnose pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus balli ''Cosmocampus balli'' (Ball's pipefish) is a species of fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is endemic to Hawaii, with observations off Oahu and Kauai. It lives is shallow, protected coral reef or rocky habitats, where it can grow to lengths ...

'' ( Fowler, 1925) (Ball's pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus banneri ''Cosmocampus banneri'' (roughridge pipefish, or Banner's pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found from the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean to Fiji, the Marshall Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands. It lives ...

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& J. E. Randall, 1972) (Roughridge pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus brachycephalus ''Cosmocampus brachycephalus'' (American crested pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, near southern Florida (USA), the Bahamas, and northern South America. It lives in sub-ti ...

'' ( Poey, 1868) (Crested pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus coccineus ''Cosmocampus coccineus'' is a species of pipefish from the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Bahía de Banderas Bahía de Banderas (, Spanish for ''Bay of Flags'') is a bay on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, ...

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, 1940) * ''

Cosmocampus darrosanus ''Cosmocampus darrosanus'' (D’Arros pipefish or whiteface pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the Western Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Guam, and the Great Barrier Reef (Australia). It live ...

'' ( C. E. Dawson & J. E. Randall, 1975) (D'Arros pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus elucens ''Cosmocampus elucens'' (shortfin pipefish, or Poey's pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the western Atlantic, off the U.S. east coast, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, throughout the Ca ...

'' ( Poey, 1868) (Shortfin pipefish) * '' Cosmocampus heraldi'' ( Fritzsche, 1980) * ''

Cosmocampus hildebrandi ''Cosmocampus hildebrandi'' (American dwarf pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, off of the US coast from North Carolina south to the Gulf of Mexico, off the Yucatan Peninsu ...

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, 1965) (Dwarf pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus howensis ''Cosmocampus howensis'' (Lord Howe pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the South Pacific from Jervis Bay (New South Wales, Australia) to Easter Island. It lives in lagoons and on rocky reefs, whe ...

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, 1948) (Lord Howe pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus investigatoris ''Cosmocampus investigatoris'' (investigator pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the Indo-West Pacific, from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Thailand. It lives over sand, mud, and coral bottoms to dept ...

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, 1926) * ''

Cosmocampus maxweberi ''Cosmocampus maxweberi'' (Maxweber's pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the Red Sea from Sumatra to Tonga and Samoa, and from the Marshall Islands to the Great Barrier Reef. Adults live in ree ...

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, 1933) (Max Weber's pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus profundus ''Cosmocampus profundus'' (deepwater pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found near the southeastern US, the Virgin Islands, and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The few specimens of this species that have b ...

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, 1965) (Deepwater pipefish) * ''

Cosmocampus retropinnis ''Cosmocampus retropinnis'' (back-finned pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. The name retropinnis comes from the location of the species' dorsal fin as either caudal or posterior. The coloration of this organism is m ...

'' C. E. Dawson, 1982

References

Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Charles Eric Dawson {{Syngnathiformes-stub