Cosmocampus howensis (Lord Howe pipefish) is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is found in the South Pacific from Jervis Bay (New South Wales, Australia) to Easter Island.Fritzsche, R.A. 1981. Syngnathus caldwelli Herald et Randall, a junior synonym of Parasyngnathus howensis Whitley. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 28(1): 94. It lives in lagoons and on rocky reefs, where it grows to lengths of .Dawson, C.E., 1985. Indo-Pacific pipefishes (Red Sea to the Americas). The Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA. It is expected to feed on small crustaceans, similar to other pipefishes. This species is ovoviviparous, with males carrying eggs before giving birth to live young.
Identifying features This species has a blotchy brown body, occasionally marked with dark speckles and pale bars.Vanessa J. Thompson & Dianne J. Bray, Cosmocampus howensis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Nov 2017, http://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/3176
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