Longsnout pipefish
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | Syngnathidae |
| Genus: | Leptonotus |
| Species: | L. norae
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| Binomial name | |
| Leptonotus norae (Waite, 1910)
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Syngnathus norae Waite, 1910 | |
The longsnout pipefish (Leptonotus norae) is a
blue penguins and Snares penguins.[1]
Etymology
The fish is named per Waite in 1911: “I have associated with this pretty species the name of Miss Nora Niven,” for whom the trawler Nora Niven, from which the type specimen was collected, was named; Nora was the youngest daughter of James Just Niven (1856-1913) the owner of the Napier Fish Supply Company in Napier, New Zealand, from whom Waite “received many kindnesses while in Napier”.[3]
See also
- A. H. A. Duméril.
- Longsnout pipefish, Syngnathus temminckii Kaup, 1856.
References
- ^ .
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2018). "Leptonotus norae" in FishBase. February 2018 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families AULOSTOMIDAE, CENTRISCIDAE, FISTULARIIDAE, SOLENOSTOMIDAE and SYNGNATHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 March 2023.
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