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Syngnathus

seaweed pipefishes

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 126227ITIS 166444GBIF 2332887key worms:126227
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2026-08-05: itis_id 166444 via WoRMS external link 2026-08-05: worms_id 126227 matched by name "Syngnathus" 2026-08-05: itis_id 166444 via WoRMS external link

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. Fossils of these species are found from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene.W CalCOFI holds 112 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, as larva, across 3 taxa under it.R

112
observations
112
records
93
sampling events
1951–2020
years
2
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages
Greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus), Arrábida National Park, Portugal
Photo · Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Observed in 2 datasets
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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.

  • 89 obs89 events1951–2020larva
    name used: Syngnathus · code 791
  • 4 obs4 events2010–2011
    name used: Syngnathus sp. · code Syngnathus sp. sp. → genus

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:126227%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 2 taxa · Syngnathus californiensis most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

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

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Syngnathinae
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 ↗