Seaweed pipefish
| Seaweed pipefish Temporal range: Oligocene - Pleistocene | |
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| Black-striped pipefish Syngnathus abaster | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | Syngnathidae |
| Subfamily: | Syngnathinae |
| Genus: | Syngnathus Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Type species | |
| Syngnathus acus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
The Seaweed pipefishes, Syngnathus, is a genus of pipefishes in the family Syngnathidae. They inhabit marine, brackish, and sometimes fresh waters.
Species
There are currently 32 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Syngnathus abaster A. Risso, 1827 (Black-striped pipefish)
- Syngnathus acus Linnaeus, 1758 (Greater pipefish)
- Syngnathus affinis Günther, 1870 (Texas pipefish)
- 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 dawsoni (Herald, 1969)
- Syngnathus euchrous Fritzsche, 1980 (Chocolate pipefish)
- Syngnathus exilis (R. C. Osburn & Nichols, 1916) (Barcheek 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 insulae Fritzsche, 1980
- Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard, 1854 (Bay pipefish)
- Syngnathus louisianae Günther, 1870 (Chain pipefish)
- Syngnathus macrobrachium Fritzsche, 1980
- Syngnathus macrophthalmus Duncker, 1915
- Syngnathus makaxi Herald & C. E. Dawson, 1972 (Yucatan pipefish)
- Syngnathus pelagicus Linnaeus, 1758 (Sargassum pipefish)
- Syngnathus phlegon A. Risso, 1827 (Pelagic pipefish)
- Syngnathus rostellatus Nilsson, 1855 (Nilsson's pipefish)
- Syngnathus safina Paulus, 1992
- Syngnathus schlegeli Kaup, 1856 (Seaweed pipefish)
- Syngnathus schmidti Popov, 1927 (Black-Sea pelagic pipefish)
- Syngnathus scovelli (Evermann & Kendall, 1896) (Gulf pipefish)
- Syngnathus springeri Herald, 1942 (Bull pipefish)
- Syngnathus taenionotus Canestrini, 1871 (Darkflank pipefish)
- Syngnathus tenuirostris Rathke, 1837 (Narrow-snouted pipefish)
- Syngnathus typhle Linnaeus, 1758 (Broadnosed pipefish)
- Syngnathus variegatus Pallas, 1814 (Thickly snouted pipefish)
- Syngnathus watermeyeri J. L. B. Smith, 1963 (River pipefish)
Fossil record
Fossils of Syngnathus are found from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene (age range: from 33.9 to 2.5 million years ago.). They are known from various localities of Greece, Italy, Germany and United States. [2]
Fossil of Syngnathus acus from Pliocene of Italy
Fossil of Syngnathus phlegon from Pliocene of Italy
Sources
- ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Syngnathus in FishBase. October 2012 version.
- ↑ Paleobiology Database
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