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Genus of fishes
Syngnathus is a
genus of
fish in the
family
Syngnathidae found in
marine ,
brackish and sometimes
fresh waters of the
Atlantic ,
Indian and
Pacific Ocean .
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Fossils of these
species are found from the
Oligocene to the
Pleistocene . They are known from various localities of
Greece ,
Italy ,
Germany and
United States .
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There are currently 36 recognized species in this genus:
Syngnathus abaster
A. Risso , 1827 (Black-striped pipefish)
Syngnathus acus
Linnaeus ,
1758 (Greater pipefish)
Syngnathus affinis
Eichwald , 1831
Syngnathus auliscus (
Swain , 1882) (Barred pipefish)
Syngnathus californiensis
D. H. Storer , 1845 (Kelp pipefish)
Syngnathus caribbaeus
C. E. Dawson , 1979 (Caribbean pipefish)
Syngnathus carinatus (
C. H. Gilbert , 1892)
Syngnathus caspius
Eichwald , 1831
Syngnathus chihiroe
Matsunuma , 2017
[5]
Syngnathus dawsoni (
Herald , 1969)
Syngnathus exilis (
R. C. Osburn &
Nichols , 1916) (Bar-cheek pipefish)
Syngnathus floridae (
D. S. Jordan &
C. H. Gilbert , 1882) (Dusky pipefish)
Syngnathus folletti
Herald , 1942
Syngnathus fuscus
D. H. Storer , 1839 (Northern pipefish)
Syngnathus leptorhynchus
Girard , 1854 (Bay pipefish)
Syngnathus louisianae
Günther , 1870 (Chain pipefish)
Syngnathus macrophthalmus
Duncker , 1915
Syngnathus makaxi
Herald &
C. E. Dawson , 1972 (Yucatán pipefish)
Syngnathus pelagicus
Linnaeus ,
1758 (Sargassum pipefish)
Syngnathus phlegon
A. Risso , 1827
Syngnathus rostellatus
Nilsson , 1855 (Nilsson's pipefish)
Syngnathus safina
Paulus , 1992
Syngnathus schlegeli
Kaup , 1856 (Seaweed pipefish)
Syngnathus schmidti A. M. Popov, 1928
Syngnathus scovelli (
Evermann &
Kendall , 1896) (Gulf pipefish)
Syngnathus springeri
Herald , 1942 (Bull pipefish)
Syngnathus taenionotus
Canestrini , 1871
Syngnathus temminckii
Kaup , 1856 (Long-snout pipefish)
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Syngnathus tenuirostris
Rathke , 1836 (Narrow-snouted pipefish)
Syngnathus typhle
Linnaeus ,
1758 (Broad-nosed pipefish)
Syngnathus variegatus
Pallas , 1814
Syngnathus watermeyeri
J. L. B. Smith , 1963 (Estuarine pipefish)
^
Eschmeyer, William N. ; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.).
"Genera in the family Syngnathiidae" .
Catalog of Fishes .
California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 8 June 2018 .
^ Fritzsche, R.A. 1980. A revisionary study of the eastern Pacific Syngnathidae (Pisces: Syngnathiformes), including both recent and fossil forms. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 42(6): 181-227.
^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016).
Species of Syngnathus in
FishBase . October 2016 version.
^
Paleobiology Database: Fossilworks: Syngnathus Linnaeus, 1758.
^ Matsunuma, M. (2017): Syngnathus chihiroe , a new species of pipefish (Syngnathidae) from southern Japan. Zootaxa, 4232 (3): 385-396.
^ Mwale, M., Kaiser, H., Barker, N.P., Wilson, A.B. & Teske, P.R. (2013):
Identification of a uniquely southern African clade of coastal pipefishes Syngnathus spp. Journal of Fish Biology, 82 (6): 2045–2062.