How to Use pipefish in a Sentence

pipefish

noun
  • Where are hairy ghost pipefish found?
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • After carefully studying them, Harasti and Short confirmed the ghost pipefish to be a completely new species.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 May 2026
  • Scientists don’t know much about ghost pipefishes in general, Short says, and have mostly operated off observations from divers.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Research scientists have discovered a new species of ghost pipefish, now officially named Solenostomus snuffleupagus.
    Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • After nearly 20 years of searching, researchers have officially documented the elusive hairy ghost pipefish, subsequently naming the new species after a muppet that's just as shaggy.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • But while the hairy ghost pipefish Solenostomus snuffleupagus was recently described for the first time in the journal Fish Biology, Harasti has long suspected its existence.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 May 2026
  • According to the Journal of Fish Biology, the hairy ghost pipefish — loosely related to seahorses, pipefishes and sea dragons — may be found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia and Tonga.
    Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026

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