Syngnathus

Short description: Genus of fishes

Syngnathus

Temporal range: 33.9–0 Ma

PreЄ

Oligocene to Recent

Syngnathus acus
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Syngnathiformes
Family:  | Syngnathidae
Subfamily:  | Syngnathinae
Genus:  | Syngnathus
Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Syngnathus acus

Linnaeus, 1758

Synonyms[1]

* Acus Swainson, 1839
* Dermatostethus Gill, 1862
* Siphostoma Rafinesque, 1810
* Syrictes Jordan & Evermann, 1927
* Tigricampus Whitley, 1934
* Tiphle Rafinesque, 1810

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.[2][3] 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 .[4]

## Species

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) [6]
* 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)

## References

1. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Syngnathiidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Syngnathiidae.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Syngnathus in FishBase. October 2016 version.
4. ↑ Paleobiology Database: Fossilworks: Syngnathus Linnaeus, 1758.
5. ↑ Matsunuma, M. (2017): Syngnathus chihiroe, a new species of pipefish (Syngnathidae) from southern Japan. Zootaxa, 4232 (3): 385-396.
6. ↑ 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.

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