THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Syngnathidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Dunckerocampus pessuliferus Fowler, 1938 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enneacampus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1910) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enneacampus kaupi (Bleeker, 1863) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| snake pipefishEntelurus aequoreus (Linnaeus, 1758) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Festucalex bifasciatus Yuki & Motomura, 2026 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Festucalex cinctus (Ramsay, 1882) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Festucalex kulbickii Fricke, 2004 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Festucalex rosa Yuki & Motomura, 2025 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Festucalex wassi Dawson, 1977 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus boothae (Whitley, 1964) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus brocki (Herald, 1953) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus dunckeri (Chabanaud, 1929) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus edmondsoni (Pietschmann, 1928) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus grayi Kaup, 1856 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus macrorhynchus Bamber, 1915 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus marquesensis Dawson, 1984 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus mataafae (Jordan & Seale, 1906) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus nitidus (Günther, 1873) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus punctatus (Kamohara, 1952) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus spinirostris (Dawson & Allen, 1981) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Halicampus zavorensis Dawson, 1984 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Haliichthys taeniophora Gray, 1859 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heraldia nocturna Paxton, 1975 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippichthys albomaculosus Jenkins & Mailautoka, 2010 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blue-spotted pipefishHippichthys cyanospilos (Bleeker, 1854) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| belly pipefishHippichthys heptagonus Bleeker, 1849 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippichthys parvicarinatus (Dawson, 1978) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippichthys penicillus (Cantor, 1849) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bellybarred pipefishHippichthys spicifer (Rüppell, 1838) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus angustus Günther, 1870 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus barbouri Jordan & Richardson, 1908 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus breviceps Peters, 1869 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| giraffe seahorseHippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus casscsio Zhang, Qin, Wang & Lin, 2016 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus colemani Kuiter, 2003 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1849 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus coronatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus dahli Ogilby, 1908 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus debelius Gomon & Kuiter, 2009 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus denise Lourie & Randall, 2003 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| lined seahorseHippocampus erectus Perry, 1810 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus fisheri Jordan & Evermann, 1903 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| long-snouted seahorseHippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus haema Han, Kim, Kai & Senou, 2017 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| seahorseHippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| thorny seahorseHippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.