title: Stigmatopora
text: # Stigmatopora
  
  Stigmatopora is a genus of pipefishes native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
  
  ## Species
  
  There are currently five recognized species in this genus:
  
  * Stigmatopora argus (J. Richardson, 1840) (spotted pipefish)
  * Stigmatopora harastii Short & Trevor-Jones, 2020 (red wide-bodied pipefish)
  * Stigmatopora macropterygia A. H. A. Duméril, 1870 (long-snouted pipefish)
  * Stigmatopora narinosa Browne & K. Smith, 2007 (Southern Gulf pipefish)
  * Stigmatopora nigra Kaup, 1856 (wide-bodied pipefish)
  