Syngnathidae - Pipefishes and Seahorses

Updated

17/06/22

Worldwide there are around 230 species in the family Syngnathidae. Australia is home to 120 species in 40 genera. Discover images and fact sheets of the syngnathid fishes on the site.

Seahorses and pipefishes

Denise's Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus denise

Shorthead Seahorse, Hippocampus breviceps

White's Seahorse courtship and mating - 12.21 pm

Monte Bello Seahorse, Hippocampus montebelloensis

Syngnathidae - Pipefishes and Seahorses

Syngnathidae Fishes

Seahorses and pipefishes

Robust Ghostpipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus Bleeker,1855

Bigbelly Seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827

Common Seahorse, Hippocampus taeniopterus Bleeker, 1852

Tryon's Pipefish, Campichthys tryoni (Ogilby, 1890)

Spotted Pipefish, Stigmatopora argus (Richardson, 1840)

Convergent camouflage and the non-monophyly of ‘seadragons’ (Syngnathidae: Teleostei): suggestions for a revised taxonomy of syngnathids

Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus nalu Short et al, 2020

Review of the Indo-Pacific pipefish genus Stigmatopora (Syngnathidae)

Sydney's Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri Kuiter, 2004

Red Wide-bodied Pipefish, Stigmatopora harastii Short & Trevor-Jones, 2020

Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970

A new seahorse species (Syngnathidae: Hippocampus) from the Great Barrier Reef