CalCOFI.io CalCOFI.io open data ecosystem

Syngnathidae

Pipefishes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 125606ITIS 166443GBIF 5901key worms:125606
i

2026-08-05: itis_id 166443 via WoRMS external link

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

Observed in 1 dataset
i

One row per dataset, and beside it 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.

  • 1 obs1 events2008larva
    name used: Syngnathidae Pipefishes · code 790

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
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

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 1 taxon
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 10 ranks · Biota to Syngnathiformes
Credits silhouette · photo · text
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

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 ↗