Seaweed pipefish
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Seaweed pipefishes, Syngnathus, is a genus of pipefish
es. Inhabit marine, brackish
, sometime fresh water
s. Consists of 32 species:
Pipefish
Pipefishes or pipe-fishes are a subfamily of small fishes, which, together with the seahorses, form the family Syngnathidae.-Anatomy:...
es. Inhabit marine, brackish
Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing of seawater with fresh water, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root "brak," meaning "salty"...
, sometime fresh water
Fresh Water
Fresh Water is the debut album by Australian rock and blues singer Alison McCallum, released in 1972. Rare for an Australian artist at the time, it came in a gatefold sleeve...
s. Consists of 32 species:
- Syngnathus abasterSyngnathus abasterThe black-striped pipefish, Syngnathus abaster, is a species of fish in the Syngnathidae family. It is found in the eastern Atlantic from the southern Gulf of Biscay to Gibraltar, also in the Mediterranean and Black Seas...
RissoAntoine RissoGiuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
, 1827 - Black-striped pipefish - Syngnathus acus Linnaeus, 1758 - Greater pipefishGreater pipefishThe Greater pipefish, Syngnathus acus, is a pipefish of the family Syngnathidae.The Greater pipefish has a long segmented armoured body, angular in cross section and stretching up 45cm long with its stiff appearance. It ranges a color brown to green in with broad alternating light and dark hue...
- Syngnathus affinis Günther, 1870 - Texas pipefishTexas pipefishTexas pipefish is a species of pipefish. It is found in the Western Atlantic near the coasts of USA. Marine demersal tropical fish. Rare species, which has possibly become extinct due to habitat loss.- References :*...
- Syngnathus auliscus (Swain, 1882) - Barred pipefishBarred pipefishBarred pipefish, Syngnathus auliscus, is a species of the pipefishes, widespread in the eastern pacific from the Southern California, USA, to northern Peru. Marine / brackishwater subtropical demersal fish, up to 18.0 cm length.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus californiensis Storer, 1845 - Kelp pipefishKelp pipefishKelp pipefish, Syngnathus californiensis, is a species of the pipefishes. Habits the Eastern Pacific from the Bodega Bay in northern California, USA, to southern Baja California, Mexico. Marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 50.0 cm length.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus caribbaeus Dawson, 1979 - Caribbean pipefishCaribbean pipefishCaribbean pipefish, Syngnathus caribbaeus, is a species of the pipefishes. Widespread in the Western Atlantic near the coasts of South America from Belize to Suriname, also from the Greater and Lesser Antilles. Marine tropical reef-associated fish, up to 22.5 cm length.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus carinatusSyngnathus carinatusSyngnathus carinatus is a species of the pipefishes, which is endemic of the northern part of the Gulf of California. Marine / freshwater subtropical demersal fish, up to 23.0 cm length.- Links :*...
(Gilbert, 1892) - Syngnathus dawsoniSyngnathus dawsoniSyngnathus dawsoni, is a species of the pipefishes. Widespread in the Western and Central Atlantic near the US Virgin Islands. Marine tropical demersal fish.- Links :*...
(Herald, 1969) - Syngnathus euchrous Fritzsche, 1980 - Chocolate pipefishChocolate pipefishChocolate pipefish, Syngnathus euchrous, is a species of the pipefishes. Widespread in the Eastern Pacific from Redondo Beach in southern California, USA, to central Baja California, Mexico. Marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 25 cm length.- Links :...
- Syngnathus exilis (Osburn & Nichols, 1916) - Barcheek pipefishBarcheek pipefishBarcheek pipefish, Syngnathus exilis, is a species of the pipefishes. Widespread in the Eastern Pacific from the Half Moon Bay in central California, USA, to south central Baja California and Guadalupe Island, Mexico. Marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 25 cm length.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus floridae (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882) - Dusky pipefishDusky pipefishDusky pipefish is a species of the pipefishes, widespread in the western Atlantic from the Bermuda, Chesapeake Bay , northern part of the Gulf of Mexico, Bahama, and the western Caribbean Sea to Panama in south. Marine subtropical demersal fish, which lives at the depth up to 22 m, usually up to 4...
- Syngnathus folletti Herald, 1942 - Southern pipefishSouthern pipefishSouthern pipefish, Syngnathus folletti, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Southwest Atlantic near Uruguay. Marine subtropical demersal fish.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus fuscus Storer, 1839 - Northern pipefishNorthern pipefishNorthern pipefish is a species of the pipefishes, which widespread in the north-western Atlantic from the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in Canada to north-eastern Florida in USA and north-western Gulf of Mexico. Marine \ freshwater demersal amphidromous fish, up to 30.0 cm length. Found on the depth...
- Syngnathus insulae Fritzsche, 1980 - Guadalupe pipefishGuadalupe pipefishGuadalupe pipefish, Syngnathus insulae, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Eastern Central Pacific, endemic to Guadalupe Island in Mexico. Marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 20.4 cm length.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus leptorhynchusSyngnathus leptorhynchusThe Bay Pipefish is a pipefish native to the eelgrass beds of the Eastern Pacific, where its sinuous shape and green color allow it to blend in with the waving blades of eelgrass. Like other members of the seahorse family, male pipefish tend the eggs laid by their female partners in specialized...
Girard, 1854 - Bay pipefish - Syngnathus louisianae Günther, 1870 - Chain pipefishChain pipefishChain pipefish, Syngnathus louisianae, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Western Atlantic from Virginia, Bermuda and northern Gulf of Mexico to Campeche and Jamaica, but absent from Bahamas. Marine subtropical reef-associated fish, up to 38 cm length....
- Syngnathus macrobrachium Fritzsche, 1980 - Large-fin PipefishLarge-fin PipefishLarge-fin Pipefish, Syngnathus macrobrachium, is a species of the pipefishes, which is common in the southern-eastern Pacific in the coastal waters from Tumbes to Puerto Montt . Marine subtropical demersal fish, up to 22.5 cm length....
- Syngnathus macrophthalmusSyngnathus macrophthalmusSyngnathus macrophthalmus, is a pipefish species, found only around Suez and Hurghada in the northwestern Red Sea. Marine tropical demersal fish, up tp 12.2 cm total length.- Links :*...
Duncker, 1915 - Syngnathus makaxi Herald & Dawson, 1972 - Yucatan pipefishYucatan pipefishYucatan pipefish, Syngnathus makaxi, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Western and Central Atlantic, in Mexico. Marine tropical demersal fish.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus pelagicus Linnaeus, 1758 - Sargassum pipefishSargassum pipefishSargassum pipefish is a species of pipefishes, which found in the western Atlantic: Maine , Bermuda, northern Gulf of Mexico to Argentina, Nova Scotia, Antilles, western Caribbean Sea from Yucatan to Colombia. Marine subtropical species, up to 18.1 cm maximal length. Habits growth of Sargassum...
- Syngnathus phlegon RissoAntoine RissoGiuseppe Antonio Risso , called Antoine Risso, was a Niçard naturalist.Risso was born in Nice, County of Nice, a part of the Duchy of Savoy, and studied under Giovanni Battista Balbis. He published , and . Risso's dolphin was named after him...
, 1827 - Pelagic pipefishPelagic pipefishPelagic pipefish, Syngnathus phlegon, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Mediterranean Sea and closed part of the Atlantic Ocean. Marine pelagic-neritic fish, up to 20.0 cm total length.- Links :*... - Syngnathus rostellatus Nilsson, 1855 - Nilsson's pipefish
- Syngnathus safinaSyngnathus safinaSyngnathus safina is a pipefish species, inhabits the western part of the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aqaba. Marine oceanic demersal fish.- Links :*...
Paulus, 1992 - Syngnathus schlegeli Kaup, 1856 - Pacific seaweed pipefishPacific seaweed pipefishThe Pacific seaweed pipefish is a species of pipefishes, found in the north-western Pacific Ocean: near Vladivostok , southern to Gulf of Tonkin. Marine, oceanic demersal fish, up to 30.0 cm length. Common in the zostera growth.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus schmidti Popov, 1927 - Black-Sea pelagic pipefishBlack-Sea pelagic pipefishBlack-Sea pelagic pipefish, Syngnathus schmidti is a pipefish species that inhabits the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. A freshwater/brackishwater fish, it can grow up to 11 cm in length, and usually lives at a depth 1-10 m, although it can live as deep as 100 m.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus scovelli (Evermann & Kendall, 1896) - Gulf pipefishGulf pipefishGulf pipefish, Syngnathus scovelli, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Western Atlantic from the northeastern Florida and northern Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean coast of Central and South America, but absent from West Indies. Marine / freshwater / brackishwater tropical demersal fish, up to 18.3...
- Syngnathus springeri Herald, 1942 - Bull pipefishBull pipefishBull pipefish, Syngnathus springeri, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Western Atlantic from Canada to North Carolina , Bahamas and northeastern Gulf of Mexico to Panama. Marine subtropical reef-associated fish, up to 38 cm length.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus taenionotus Canestrini, 1871 - Darkflank pipefishDarkflank pipefishDarkflank pipefish is a pipefish species, inhabits the north-western Adriatic. Marine / brackishwater demersal, ovoviviparous fish, up to 19.0 cm length. Found mostly amongst detritus or vegetation on the shallow-muddy bottom....
- Syngnathus tenuirostris RathkeMartin RathkeMartin Heinrich Rathke was a German embryologist and anatomist.Rathke was a professor of zoology and anatomy at Königsberg from 1835 to 1860. He studied marine organisms and the embryonic development of sex organs. He was the first to describe the gill slits and gill arches in the embryos of...
, 1837 - Narrow-snouted pipefishNarrow-snouted pipefishNarrow-snouted pipefish is a pipefish species, inhabits the Mediterranean basin: Adriatic Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, and Black Sea. Marine demersal, ovoviviparous fish.- Links :*... - Syngnathus typhle Linnaeus, 1758 - Broadnosed pipefishBroadnosed pipefishBroadnosed pipefish, Syngnathus typhle, is a fish of Syngnathidae family.Found in the Eastern Atlantic from Vardø in Norway, Baltic Sea and the British Isles at North to Morocco at South. Also in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Sea of Azov. It is common in the coastal shallow waters.- Links :*...
- Syngnathus variegatus PallasPeter Simon PallasPeter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University...
, 1814 - Thickly snouted pipefishThickly snouted pipefishThickly snouted pipefish, Syngnathus variegatus, is a pipefish species, inhabits the Black Sea and Sea of Azov. Marine demersal, ovoviviparous fish.- Links :*... - Syngnathus watermeyeri Smith, 1963 - River pipefishRiver pipefishThe river pipefish is a species of fish in the Syngnathidae family. It is endemic to South Africa: sites with tidal influence within the Kariega, Kasouga, Bushmans Rivers.-Source:*...