Messmate pipefish
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An illustration based on the real animal.
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Male messmate pipefish guard eggs on their underside until they hatch.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Messmate pipefish
- Scientific name
- Corythoichthys haematopterus
- Japanese name
- イシヨウジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Corythoichthys
How the Messmate pipefish lives
It moves along the bottom as though dragging its body. It often stays still on rocks.
沖縄美ら海水族館宇久井ビジターセンターBasic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, Indo-West Pacific excluding the Red Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Messmate pipefish has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- イシヨウジ
- 简体中文
- 红鳍冠海龙
- 繁體中文
- 紅鰭冠海龍
- Français
- Poisson-aiguille de récif
- Deutsch
- Liegende Seenadel
- Português (Brasil)
- Peixe-cachimbo-de-recife
- Italiano
- Pesce ago del reef
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tangkur gosong
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — イシヨウジChecked: 2026-11-04
- 宇久井ビジターセンター — イシヨウジChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — イシヨウジChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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