Filicampus tigris

Tiger Pipefish | Tentacled Pipefish
Filicampus tigris
Filicampus tigris, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, Photo: Tom Davis
Filicampus tigris
Filicampus tigris, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, Photo: Tom Davis
Filicampus tigris
Filicampus tigris, Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, Photo: Ian Shaw
Filicampus tigris
Filicampus tigris, Photo: Graham Edgar
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Filicampus tigris
Filicampus tigris
Filicampus tigris
Filicampus tigris

Distribution

Temperate Australasia, Tropical Indo-Pacific


Description

Relatively large body, oblique bands on cheek, regular, widely spaced blue-black bands on body. Juveniles and sub-adults have dermal appendages behind head and along body. Occasionally observed resting on rubble bottom in deep embayments. Length to 30 cm.


Information

Max Size: 30 cm

Sea Temperature Range: 16.2-25.6°C

Depth: 2-30m

Habitat Generalization Index: N/A

Also referred to as the SGI (Species Generalisation Index), this describes the habitat niche breadth of the species. Species with values less than 15 are found in a relatively narrow range of reef habitat types (specialists), while those over 25 may be found on most hard substrates within their range (generalists). Learn more here.


Conservation and Rarity

IUCN Status: Not Evaluated

Occurrence: Infrequent (5.5% of sites)

Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution. It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed

Abundance: Few (2 per transect)

Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.


Edit by: Joe Shields