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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Syngnathidae

Pipefishes

WoRMS 125606ITIS 166443GBIF 5901key worms:125606
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166443 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Choeroichthys sculptus

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

Photograph of Syngnathidae
Photo · Alberto Estrada · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons. The family name comes from Ancient Greek σύν (sún), meaning "together", and γνάθος (gnáthos), meaning "jaw", referring to the fused jaw that the entire family have in common.W CalCOFI holds 113 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, as larva, across 4 taxa under it.R

113
observations
113
records
1
sampling events
1951–2020
years
2
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 1 obs · 1 events · 2008 · larva
    name used: Syngnathidae Pipefishes · code 790

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125606%22