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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pacific seahorseHippocampus ingens Girard, 1858 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese pygmy seahorseHippocampus japapigu Short, Smith, Motomura, Harasti & Hamilton, 2018 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus jugumus Kuiter, 2001 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spotted seahorseHippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus minotaur Gomon, 1997 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese seahorseHippocampus mohnikei Bleeker, 1853 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus nalu Short, Claassens, Smith, De Brauwer, Hamilton, Stat & Harasti, 2020 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus paradoxus Foster & Gomon, 2010 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus patagonicus Piacentino & Luzzatto, 2004 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus planifrons Peters, 1877 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus pontohi Lourie & Kuiter, 2008 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus pusillus Fricke, 2004 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longsnout seahorseHippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus satomiae Lourie & Kuiter, 2008 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus sindonis Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus spinosissimus Weber, 1913 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach, 1814 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus tyro Randall & Lourie, 2009 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus waleananus Gomon & Kuiter, 2009 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus zebra Whitley, 1964 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| dwarf seahorseHippocampus zosterae Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Histiogamphelus briggsii McCulloch, 1914 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Histiogamphelus cristatus (MacLeay, 1881) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypselognathus horridus Dawson & Glover, 1982 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hypselognathus rostratus (Waite & Hale, 1921) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ichthyocampus bikiniensis Herald, 1953 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ichthyocampus carce (Hamilton, 1822) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Idiotropiscis australis (Waite & Hale, 1921) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Idiotropiscis larsonae (Dawson, 1984) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri Kuiter, 2004 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kaupus costatus (Waite & Hale, 1921) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kimblaeus bassensis Dawson, 1980 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kyonemichthys rumengani Gomon, 2007 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptoichthys fistularius Kaup, 1853 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptonotus blainvilleanus (Eydoux & Gervais, 1837) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptonotus elevatus (Hutton, 1872) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptonotus norae (Waite, 1910) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptonotus vincentae Luzzatto & Estalles, 2019 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lissocampus caudalis Waite & Hale, 1921 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lissocampus runa (Whitley, 1931) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maroubra perserrata Whitley, 1948 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maroubra yasudai Dawson, 1983 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Micrognathus andersonii (Bleeker, 1858) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Micrognathus brevicorpus Fricke, 2004 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Micrognathus brevirostris (Rüppell, 1838) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| banded pipefishMicrognathus crinitus (Jenyns, 1842) | 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.