Southern Little Pipehorse
Idiotropiscis australis
- Water temperature17–21 °C
- Best monthsMarch and May
- How commonRare
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 3 records
- February: 12 records
- March: 27 records
- April: 16 records
- May: 30 records
- June: 12 records
- July: 3 records
- August: 0 records
- September: 2 records
- October: 2 records
- November: 1 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 17–21 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Southern Little Pipehorse, Southern Pygmy Pipehorse
Names in 1 more languages
- Simplified Chinese
- 澳大利亚细尾海马v, 澳大利亞細尾海馬
Other scientific names: Acentronura australe, Idiotropiscis australe
Similar species
Sydney's Pygmy PipehorseIdiotropiscis lumnitzeri
Banded PipefishCorythoichthys flavofasciatus
Bloodspot PipefishCorythoichthys haematopterus
Banded pipefishCorythoichthys intestinalis
Bluestripe pipefishDoryrhamphus excisus
Banded PipefishDunckerocampus dactyliophorus
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 9 open-data records from 1946 to 1997.
- Species data updated November 3, 2026.
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