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

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

Common Seahorse, Hippocampus taeniopterus Bleeker, 1852

Bigbelly Seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827

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

Robust Ghostpipefish, Solenostomus cyanopterus Bleeker,1855

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

Pygmy Seahorse, Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970

Spotted Pipefish, Stigmatopora argus (Richardson, 1840)

The diverse, distinctive and charismatic seahorse genus Hippocampus

Potbelly Seahorse, Hippocampus bleekeri Fowler, 1908

Upside-down Pipefish, Heraldia nocturna Paxton, 1975

Sydney's Pygmy Pipehorse, Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri Kuiter, 2004