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Syngnathiformes

Orderaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 10327ITIS 644840key worms:10327
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2026-08-05: itis_id 644840 via WoRMS external link

The Syngnathiformes are an order of ray-finned fishes that includes the pipefishes, seahorses, trumpetfishes, goatfish, dragonets, flying gurnards, and sea moths, among others.W CalCOFI holds 275 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, across 8 taxa under it.R

275
observations
275
records
1951–2020
years
2
datasets
5
species under it
Photograph of Syngnathiformes
Photo · Alberto Estrada · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Centriscidae most observed, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:10327")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 4 taxa · Centriscidae most observed
Lineage 9 ranks · Biota to Teleostei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

WikidataiNaturalistGBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗