5969 Doryrhamphus excisus Kaup, 1856 Syngnathidae Pipefishes and seahorses Nerophinae Syngnathiformes Teleostei Bluestripe pipefish Indo-Pacific and Eastern Pacific: Persian Gulf and East Africa to the west coast of the Americas. It was noted by Dawson (Ref. 5316) that there is a clinal increase in the number of total rings and dorsal rays for the 3 subspecies (Red Sea, <i>D. e. abbreviatus</i> and Eastern Pacific <i>D. e. paulus</i> (Ref. 86689). UBC 570109 19 N 104 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 570119 19 N 105 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 610117 16 N 99 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 610150 21 N 106 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 610166 23 N 109 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 540057 18 N 110 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 540058 18 N 110 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 540065 22 N 109 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura UBC 540544 1 S 89 W Doryrhamphus melanopleura AMNH 17845 Doryrhamphus melanopleura FB 2739453 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 16104 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 16385 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 16386 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 22123 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 18793 1933 Doryrhamphus melanopleura AMNH 16015 1941 Doryrhamphus californiensis GCRL 15753 1956 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 26981 1960 Doryrhamphus melanopleura AMNH 27020 1961 Doryrhamphus melanopleura GCRL 13777 1964 Doryrhamphus excisus CICIMAR-IPN 226 1965 Doryrhamphus excisus excisus 2 m GCRL 17061 1965 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 17062 1965 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 17059 1967 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 20954 1968 Doryrhamphus excisus 2 m AMNH 213818 1969 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 35913 1969 Doryrhamphus melanopleura AMNH 36473 1969 Doryrhamphus melanopleura GCRL 4044 1969 Doryrhamphus excisus 1 - 1 m AMNH 51720 1970 Doryrhamphus melanopleura AMNH 51758 1970 Doryrhamphus melanopleura AMNH 51881 1970 Doryrhamphus melanopleura AMNH 72176 1970 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 72838 1970 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 72839 1970 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 72840 1970 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 6553 1971 Doryrhamphus excisus 1 m GCRL 13089 1974 Doryrhamphus excisus 1 m GCRL 16394 1974 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 16393 1975 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 14906 1976 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 16981 1977 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 73358 1978 Doryrhamphus californiensis AMNH 73474 1978 Doryrhamphus excisus AMNH 73491 1978 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 16956 1979 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 17014 1979 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 16945 1980 Doryrhamphus excisus GCRL 19962 1982 Doryrhamphus excisus