snake pipefish
entelurus aequoreus latin

Snake pipefish are a large, thin and exceptionally bony fish found in deep waters from Iceland to the Azores.

Since 2002, the recorder has picked up something else in the northeastern part of its run - unusually high counts of larval and juvenile snake pipefish.

Entelurus aequoreus, the Snake pipefish, is a species of pipefish native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where they are generally found amongst algae close in to shore.