English: Pipefishes, Seahorses.
Name:
Syngnathiformes means "conjoined-jaws".
ZoologyRay-finned fishes; elongated, narrow, bodies surrounded by a series of bony rings, and small, tubular mouths.
Food: ingestion of prey at close range via suction.
Habitat: among seaweed, swimming vertically to blend in with the stems. Reproduction: reserve sexual system; males conduct in specialized brooding and rearing of the embryos, house eggs in an osmoregulated pouch or adhere eggs to their tail until the eggs reach maturity.
TaxonomyFormerly
Syngnathiformes were placed as a suborder of
Gasterosteiformes.
Evidence shows they might not be particularly close relatives at all.
FamiliesSuborder Syngnathoidei.
Superfamily Pegasoidea.
• Pegasidae: Seamoths.
Superfamily Syngnathoidea.
• Solenostomidae: Ghost pipefishes.
•
Syngnathidae: Pipefishes and seahorses.
Superfamily Aulostomoidea.
• Aulostomidae: Trumpetfishes.
• Fistularidae: Cornetfishes
Superfamily Centriscoidea.
• Macroramphosidae: Snipefishes.
• Centriscidae: Shrimpfishes.
• Dactylopteridae: Flying gurnards.
Order Syngnathiformes: Long snouted cladeSuborder Syngnathoidei.
• Solenostomidae: Ghost pipefishes.
•
Syngnathidae: Pipefishes and seahorses.
• Aulostomidae: Trumpetfishes.
• Fistularidae: Cornetfishes.
• Centriscidae: Shrimpfishes, Snipefishes.
Suborder Callionymoidei; Benthic clade.
• Callionymidae: Dragonets.
• Draconettidae: Slope dragonets.
Suborder Mulloidei.
•
Mullidae: Goatfishes.
Suborder Dactylopteroidei.
• Dactylopteridae: Flying gurnards.
• Pegasidae: Seamoths.