''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
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, the
Marshall Islands, and the
Ryukyu Islands.
It lives in
coral reefs
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of Colony (biology), colonies of coral polyp (zoology), polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, wh ...
at depths of 2-30m, where it can grow to lengths of 5.8 cm. Although little is known about the feeding habits of ''C. banneri'', it is expected to feed on small
crustaceans similar to other pipefish.
[ This species is ovoviviparous,][Myers, R.F., 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. p.298]
Etymology
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* Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ...
honours Albert Henry Banner (1914-1985), an American
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carcinologist
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who was an expert in alpheid
Alpheidae is a family of caridean snapping shrimp, characterized by having asymmetrical claws, the larger of which is typically capable of producing a loud snapping sound. Other common names for animals in the group are pistol shrimp or alpheid ...
shrimps.
References
Further reading
Government of Australia Department of the Environment and EnergyFishes of Australia
banneri
Marine fish
Taxa named by Earl Stannard Herald
Taxa named by John Ernest Randall
Fish described in 1972
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