Ringed pipefish
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The ringed pipefish has a very long snout and red to blackish bands.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Ringed pipefish
- Scientific name
- Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus
- Japanese name
- オイランヨウジ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Dunckerocampus
Where the name “Ringed pipefish” comes from
The scientific name 'dactyliophorus' comes from words meaning finger and lighthouse. This scientific name refers to the distinctive white spot on its tail fin.
Museums VictoriaIt is also listed under the scientific name Doryrhamphus dactyliophorus.
It lives from Jeju Island, Shanghai and Hong Kong to the Lesser Sunda Islands, the Andaman Sea and the coasts of Australia.
Adults live in tide pools, lagoons and on outer reef slopes, where they are seen in caves and under rock ledges.
Basic data
- Diet
- Small invertebrates
- Range
- Jeju Island, Shanghai, Hong Kong, the Lesser Sunda Islands, northwestern and southeastern Australia, the Andaman Sea, and elsewhere
Where the Ringed 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
- オイランヨウジ
- 简体中文
- 带纹矛吻海龙
- 繁體中文
- 帶紋矛吻海龍
- Español
- Pez Pipa Bandeado
- Français
- Syngnathe zébré
- Deutsch
- Gebänderte Seenadel
- Português (Brasil)
- Doryrhamphus dactyliophorus
- Italiano
- Pesce ago ad anelli
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tangkur belang
- Tiếng Việt
- Banded pipefish
- Русский
- Пальчатый дункерокамп
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 — オイランヨウジChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Banded Pipefish, Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus (Bleeker, 1853)Checked: 2026-11-07
- Museums Victoria — Banded Pipefish, Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus (Bleeker 1853)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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