Bay Pipefish 2

Pacific Ocean Babies

Babies of a Bay Pipefish
Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard

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15 mm size of a Bay Pipefish Top, dorsal view; Middle, lateral view; Bottom, ventral view.	20 mm size of a Bay Pipefish Top, dorsal view; Middle, lateral view; Bottom, ventral view.

DATA ABOUT SPECIMENS

Specimens caught: July, 1971.
Collection Site: Boat harbour, Tofino Inlet, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, British Columbia, Canada.
Collection Depth: Daylight, near-surface depths.
Collection Method: Ten-minute tows of a conical, fine-mesh townet in the harbour.
Collector: Jim Amundrud, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Illustration left: Copyright 2000, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Pacific Ocean Babies