Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard 1854
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Syngnathiformes
- family
- Syngnathidae
- genus
- Syngnathus
- species
- Syngnathus leptorhynchus
description
Bay Pipefish. To 38.5 cm (15.2 in) TL (Bayer 1980). Prince William Sound (Orsi et al. 1991) to eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Fritzsche 1980). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 18 m (60 ft) (min.: Chotkowski 1994; max.: Love et al. 1986). Garcia et al. (2019) proposed that this species is a junior synonym of Syngnathus californiensis Storer, 1845.
Name
- Homonyms
- Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard 1854