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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Syngnathus

seaweed pipefishes

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

Silhouette · Alexandra Hahn · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Syngnathus typhle

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).

Greater pipefish (Syngnathus acus), Arrábida National Park, Portugal
Photo · Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

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

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 89 obs · 89 events · 1951–2020 · larva
    name used: Syngnathus · code 791
  • Mesopelagic Fish 4 obs · 4 events · 2010–2011
    name used: Syngnathus sp. · code Syngnathus sp. sp. → genus

Under it · 2 taxa

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:126227%22