Bluestripe Pipefish
Doryrhamphus excisus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Doryrhamphus
Where to Find
Found in 52 diving areas across 34 countries and 9 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 3 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 13 records
- Bocas del Toro, Panama - 42 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 41 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 5 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 8 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 13 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 10 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 4 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 12 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 4 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 12 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 7 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 3 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Green Island, Taiwan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 8 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 17 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 10 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 2 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 35 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 5 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 3 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 23 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 4 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 2 records
- El Gouna, Egypt - 3 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 2 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 40 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 4 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 6 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 6 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 2 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 3 records