Black rock pipefish
Phoxocampus belcheri
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
- Phoxocampus
Where to Find
Found in 24 diving areas across 16 countries and 6 regions.
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 3 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 6 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 4 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 2 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 2 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 16 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 4 records
- Marsa Alam, Egypt - 4 records
- Komodo, Indonesia - 1 records
- Raja Ampat, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 8 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 9 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 8 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records