Family

Common name: Pipefishes

Scientific name: Syngnathidae

The Syngnathidae family encompasses a fascinating group of fish known for their elongated bodies and tubular snouts. Members of this family, including seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons, exhibit unique breeding behaviors where males carry the fertilized eggs. They thrive in a variety of marine environments and can be a captivating addition to a reef aquarium. Their diet consists mainly of small crustaceans. Special care is needed to ensure they receive adequate nutrition in captivity.

  1. Coral Banded Pipefish; Moalboal, Cebu, Central Visayas, Philippines
    Common name: Brown-banded pipefish
    Scientific name: Corythoichthys amplexus
  2. A network pipefish, Corythoichthys flavofasciatus, underwater in the lagoon of Huahine island, Pacific ocean, French Polynesia
    Common name: Network pipefish
    Scientific name: Corythoichthys flavofasciatus
  3. Reeftop Pipefish Corythoichthys haematopterus
    Common name: Reeftop pipefish
    Scientific name: Corythoichthys haematopterus
  4. イシヨウジ・Scribbled pipefish、Corythoichthys intestinalis (Ramsay, 1881)。ミクロネシア連邦ヤップ島
    Common name: Scribbled pipefish
    Scientific name: Corythoichthys intestinalis
  5. Black-breasted Pipefish (Corythoichthys nigripectus) during a night dive at Padre Burgos Pier in Sogod Bay, Southern Leyte, Philippines.  Underwater photography and travel.
    Common name: Black-breasted pipefish
    Scientific name: Corythoichthys nigripectus
  6. Schultzs Pipefish (Corythoichthys schultzi) Lembeh Strait, Indonesia
    Common name: Schultz's pipefish
    Scientific name: Corythoichthys schultzi
  7. Pacific Blue-stripe pipefish
    Common name: Bluestripe pipefish
    Scientific name: Doryrhamphus excisus
  8. Janss Pipefish - Doryrhamphus janssi
    Common name: Janss' pipefish
    Scientific name: Doryrhamphus janssi
  9. Common name: Redstripe pipefish
    Scientific name: Dunckerocampus baldwini
  10. Ringed pipefish (Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus). Picture was taken in Lembeh Strait, Indonesia
    Common name: banded pipefish
    Scientific name: Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus
  11. Close-up of a Multibar pipefish Dunckerocampus multiannulatus with eggs
    Common name: Many-banded pipefish
    Scientific name: Dunckerocampus multiannulatus
  12. Yellowbanded pipefish, Dunckerocampus pessuliferus, is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae
    Common name: Yellowbanded pipefish
    Scientific name: Dunckerocampus pessuliferus
  13. Common name: Booth's pipefish
    Scientific name: Halicampus boothae
  14. Portrait of winged pipefish on coral reef in Indonesia - Halicampus macrorhynchus
    Common name: Ornate pipefish
    Scientific name: Halicampus macrorhynchus
  15. Common name: Glittering pipefish
    Scientific name: Halicampus nitidus
  16. Common name: Ward's pipefish
    Scientific name: Hippichthys cyanospilos
  17. Common name: Beady pipefish
    Scientific name: Hippichthys penicillus
  18. Portrait of coral reef pipefish
    Common name: Blue spotted pipefish
    Scientific name: Hippichthys spicifer
  19. Close up shot of a seahorse, Hippocampus abdominalis.
    Common name: Pot-bellied seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus abdominalis
  20. Common name: west african seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus algiricus
  21. Common name: Western spiny seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus angustus
  22. Juvenile zebra snout seahorse - Hippocampus barbouri
    Common name: Barbour's seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus barbouri
  23.  Pink pygmy seahorse in gorgonian seafan on coral reef - Hippocampus bargibanti
    Common name: Pygmy seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus bargibanti
  24. seahorse (Hippocampus) swimming.
    Common name: spotted seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus borboniensis
  25. The knobby seahorse - short-headed seahorse
    Common name: Short-head seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus breviceps
  26. Common name: giraffe seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus camelopardalis
  27. Common Seahorse.
    Common name: Cape seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus capensis
  28. Beautiful Tiger Tail Seahorse on a tropical coral reef in Thailand
    Common name: Tiger Tail Seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus comes
  29. Barbours seahorse swimming in sea by black background. Cute Hippocampus barbouri in aquarium, side view
    Common name: horned seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus coronatus
  30. Denise's pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise). Underwater macro photography from Romblon, Philippines
    Common name: Denise's pygmy seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus denise
  31. Lined seahorse Hippocampus erectus clings to a strand of seaweed.
    Common name: lined seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus erectus
  32. Hawaiian Pelagic Seahorse
    Common name: spotted seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus fisheri
  33. Sea Pony attached to a marine plant
    Common name: Sea Pony
    Scientific name: Hippocampus fuscus
  34. Long-snouted Seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) in Adriatic sea, Croatia
    Common name: Long-snouted Seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus guttulatus
  35. Short-snouted Seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) on the seabed
    Common name: Short-snouted Seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus hippocampus
  36. Thorny Seahorse - Hippocampus histrix. Underwater macro world of Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia.
    Common name: Thorny seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus histrix
  37. Hedgehog seahorse (hippocampus spinosissimus) macro photo taken in Malapascua island, Cebu Philippines
    Common name: Pacific seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus ingens
  38. Hippocampus jayakari EG-138....
    Common name: Jayakar's seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus jayakari
  39. Great seahorse in IOP, Izu
    Common name: Great seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus kelloggi
  40. Estuary Seahorse (Hippocampus kuda) from the indo-pacific ocean
    Common name: Yellow Seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus kuda
  41. Common name: Lichtenstein's Seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus lichtensteinii
  42. Common name: Bullneck seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus minotaur
  43. Japanese Ocean
    Common name: Japanese seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus mohnikei
  44. Beautiful view of yellow longsnout seahorse (hippocampus reidi)
    Common name: Slender seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus reidi
  45. Sea star crown of thorns
    Common name: crowned seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus sindonis
  46. Queensland Seahorse Hippocampus spinosissimus
    Common name: Hedgehog seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus spinosissimus
  47. Tiger snout seahorse West Australian seahorse
    Common name: West Australian seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus subelongatus
  48. Longnose or Three-spot Seahorse (Hippocampus trimaculatus)
    Common name: Three-spot Seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus trimaculatus
  49. White's Seahorse Hippocampus whitei, White's Seepferdchen in Sydney, Australia
    Common name: White's seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus whitei
  50. Juvenile zebra snout seahorse - Hippocampus barbouri
    Common name: Zebra seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus zebra
  51. Dwarf Seahorse
    Common name: little seahorse
    Scientific name: Hippocampus zosterae
  52. Leafy Sea Dragon-Phycodurus eques, Großer Fetzenfisch, Leafy Seadragon, Glauert's Sea-dragon in Rapid Bay, South Australia
    Common name: leafy sea dragon
    Scientific name: Phycodurus eques
  53. Colorful Weedy Seadragon Fish Oahu Hawaii
    Common name: Weedy seadragon
    Scientific name: Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
  54. Mushroom-coral Pipefish (Siokunichthys nigrolineatus) Underwater Photography
    Common name: Mushroom-coral pipefish
    Scientific name: Siokunichthys nigrolineatus
  55. Portrait of Bentstick Pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus
    Common name: alligator pipefish
    Scientific name: Syngnathoides biaculeatus
  56. Bay Pipefish at Aquarium of the Bay
    Common name: bay pipefish
    Scientific name: Syngnathus leptorhynchus
  57. Bentstick Pipefish, Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus
    Common name: Short-tailed pipefish
    Scientific name: Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus