# Longsnout pipefish

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The **longsnout pipefish** (***Leptonotus norae***) is a [pipefish](/source/Pipefish) of the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Syngnathidae](/source/Syngnathidae). It has only been recorded from midwater and bottom trawls at depths of 37-212 m ft. The habitat and biology of this species are almost unknown but juveniles have been recorded in the stomachs of [blue penguins](/source/Blue_penguin) and [Snares penguins](/source/Snares_penguin).[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](/source/Napier,_New_Zealand), from whom Waite "received many kindnesses while in Napier".[2]

## See also

- [Long-snouted pipefish](/source/Long-snouted_pipefish), *Stigmatopora macropterygia* [A. H. A. Duméril](/source/Auguste_Henri_Andr%C3%A9_Dum%C3%A9ril).
- Longsnout pipefish, *[Syngnathus temminckii](/source/Syngnathus_temminckii)* [Kaup](/source/Johann_Jakob_Kaup), 1856.

## References

1. Pollom, R. (2016). "*Leptonotus norae*". Vol. 2016. [doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T65369867A67623826.en](https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T65369867A67623826.en)

1. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). ["Order SYNGNATHIFORMES: Families AULOSTOMIDAE, CENTRISCIDAE, FISTULARIIDAE, SOLENOSTOMIDAE and SYNGNATHIDAE"](http://www.etyfish.org/syngnathiformes1/). *The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database*. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 13 March 2023.

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