Kinds of Fish

Species listed are from www.fishbase.org

Scientific name -- Other names
Syngnathidae -- Pipefishes; Seahorses
   Acentronura australe Waite and Hale, 1921 -- Southern Little Pipehorse
   Acentronura dendritica (Barbour, 1905) -- Pipehorse
   Acentronura gracilissima (Temminck and Schlegel, 1850) -- Bastard Seahorse
   Acentronura larsonae Dawson, 1984
   Acentronura tentaculata Gunther, 1870
   Anarchopterus criniger (Bean and Dresel, 1884) -- Fringed Pipefish
   Anarchopterus tectus (Dawson, 1978) -- Insular Pipefish
   Apterygocampus epinnulatus Weber, 1913
   Bhanotia fasciolata (Duméril, 1870)
   Bhanotia nuda Dawson, 1978 -- Naked Pipefish
   Bhanotia pauciradiata Allen and Kuiter, 1995 -- Few-rayed Pipefish
   Bryx analicarens (Duncker, 1915) -- Pink Pipefish
   Bryx dunckeri (Metzelaar, 1919) -- Pugnose Pipefish
   Bryx randalli (Herald, 1965)
   Bryx veleronis Herald, 1940
   Bulbonaricus brauni (Dawson and Allen, 1978) -- Pugheaded Pipefish
   Bulbonaricus brucei Dawson, 1984
   Bulbonaricus davaoensis (Herald, 1953)
   Campichthys galei (Duncker, 1909) -- Gales Pipefish
   Campichthys nanus Dawson, 1977
   Campichthys tricarinatus Dawson, 1977
   Campichthys tryoni (Ogilby, 1890) -- Tryons Pipefish
   Choeroichthys brachysoma (Bleeker, 1855) -- Short-bodied Pipefish
   Choeroichthys cinctus Dawson, 1976
   Choeroichthys latispinosus Dawson, 1978
   Choeroichthys sculptus (Gunther, 1870) -- Sculptured Pipefish
   Choeroichthys smithi Dawson, 1976
   Choeroichthys suillus Whitley, 1951 -- Pig-snouted Pipefish
   Corythoichthys amplexus Dawson and Randall, 1975 -- Brown-banded Pipefish
   Corythoichthys flavofasciatus (Rüppell, 1838) -- Network Pipefish
   Corythoichthys haematopterus (Bleeker, 1851) -- Messmate Pipefish
   Corythoichthys insularis Dawson, 1977
   Corythoichthys intestinalis (Ramsay, 1881) -- Scribbled Pipefish
   Corythoichthys nigripectus Herald, 1953 -- Black-breasted Pipefish
   Corythoichthys ocellatus Herald, 1953 -- Ocellated Pipefish
   Corythoichthys paxtoni Dawson, 1977
   Corythoichthys polynotatus Dawson, 1977 -- Many-spotted Pipefish
   Corythoichthys schultzi Herald, 1953 -- Schultzs Pipefish
   Cosmocampus albirostris (Kaup, 1856) -- Whitenose Pipefish
   Cosmocampus arctus_arctus (Jenkins and Evermann, 1889) -- Snubnose Pipefish
   Cosmocampus arctus_coccineus (Herald, 1940)
   Cosmocampus arctus_heraldi (Fritzsche, 1980)
   Cosmocampus balli (Fowler, 1925) -- Balls Pipe Fish
   Cosmocampus banneri (Herald and Randall, 1972) -- Roughridge Pipefish
   Cosmocampus brachycephalus (Poey, 1868) -- Crested Pipefish
   Cosmocampus darrosanus (Dawson and Randall, 1975)Vertebrata/Fish/Syngnathidae -- Species
   Cosmocampus elucens
   Cosmocampus hildebrandi (Herald, 1965) -- Dwarf Pipefish
   Cosmocampus howensis (Whitley, 1948)
   Cosmocampus investigatoris (Hora, 1926)
   Cosmocampus maxweberi (Whitley, 1933) -- Maxwebers Pipefish
   Cosmocampus profundus (Herald, 1965) -- Deepwater Pipefish
   Cosmocampus retropinnis Dawson, 1982
   Doryichthys boaja (Bleeker, 1851) -- Long-snouted Pipefish
   Doryichthys contiguus Kottelat, 2000
   Doryichthys deokhatoides (Bleeker, 1853)
   Doryichthys heterosoma (Bleeker, 1851)
   Doryichthys martensii (Peters, 1868)
   Doryrhamphus aurolineatus Randall and Earle, 1994
   Doryrhamphus baldwini (Herald and Randall, 1972) -- Redstripe Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus bicarinatus Dawson, 1981 -- Narrowstripe Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus chapmani (Herald, 1953)
   Doryrhamphus dactyliophorus (Bleeker, 1853) -- Ringed Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus excisus_abbreviatus Dawson, 1981
   Doryrhamphus excisus_excisus Kaup, 1856 -- Bluestripe Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus excisus_paulus Fritzsche, 1980
   Doryrhamphus janssi (Herald and Randall, 1972) -- Janss Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus japonicus Araga and Yoshino, 1975
   Doryrhamphus multiannulatus (Regan, 1903) -- Many-banded Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus negrosensis_malus (Whitley, 1954) -- Masthead Island Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus negrosensis_negrosensis Herre, 1934 -- Negros Pipefish
   Doryrhamphus pessuliferus (Fowler, 1938)
   Dunckerocampus boylei Kuiter, 1998 -- Broad-banded Pipefish
   Enneacampus ansorgii (Boulenger, 1910)
   Enneacampus kaupi (Bleeker, 1863)
   Entelurus aequoreus (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Snake Pipefish
   Festucalex cinctus (Ramsay, 1882) -- Girdled Pipefish
   Festucalex erythraeus (Gilbert, 1905)
   Festucalex gibbsi Dawson, 1977
   Festucalex prolixus Dawson, 1984
   Festucalex scalaris (Gunther, 1870) -- Ladder Pipefish
   Festucalex wassi Dawson, 1977
   Filicampus tigris (Castelnau, 1879) -- Tiger Pipefish
   Halicampus boothae (Whitley, 1964) -- Booth; S Pipefish
   Halicampus brocki (Herald, 1953) -- Brocks Pipefish
   Halicampus dunckeri (Chabanaud, 1929) -- Dunckers Pipefish
   Halicampus edmondsoni (Pietschmann, 1928) -- Edmondsons Pipefish
   Halicampus grayi Kaup, 1856 -- Grays Pipefish
   Halicampus macrorhynchus Bamber, 1915 -- Ornate Pipefish
   Halicampus marquesensis Dawson, 1984
   Halicampus mataafae (Jordan and Seale, 1906) -- Samoan Pipefish
   Halicampus nitidus (Gunther, 1873) -- Glittering Pipefish
   Halicampus punctatus (Kamohara, 1952) -- Starry Pipefish
   Halicampus spinirostris (Dawson and Allen, 1981)
   Halicampus zavorensis Dawson, 1984 -- Zavora Pipefish
   Haliichthys taeniophorus Gray, 1859 -- Ribboned Pipefish
   Heraldia nocturna Paxton, 1975
   Hippichthys cyanospilus (Bleeker, 1854) -- Blue-spotted Pipefish
   Hippichthys heptagonus Bleeker, 1849 -- Belly Pipefish
   Hippichthys parvicarinatus (Dawson, 1978)
   Hippichthys penicillus (Cantor, 1849) -- Beady Pipefish
   Hippichthys spicifer (Rüppell, 1838) -- Bellybarred Pipefish
   Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827 -- Big-belly Seahorse
   Hippocampus alatus Kuiter, 2001 -- Winged Seahorse
   Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856 -- West African Seahorse
   Hippocampus angustus Gunther, 1870 -- Narrow-bellied Seahorse
   Hippocampus barbouri Jordan and Richardson, 1908 -- Barbours Seahorse
   Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970 -- Pygmy Seahorse
   Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001 -- False-eyed Seahorse
   Hippocampus borboniensis Duméril, 1870Vertebrata/Fish/Syngnathidae -- Species
   Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854 -- Giraffe Seahorse
   Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900 -- Knysna Seahorse
   Hippocampus colemani Kuiter, 2003
   Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1850 -- Tiger Tail Seahorse
   Hippocampus coronatus Temminck and Schlegel, 1850
   Hippocampus denise Lourie and Randall, 2003 -- Denises Pygmy Seahorse
   Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810 -- Lined Seahorse
   Hippocampus fisheri Jordan and Evermann, 1903 -- Fishers Seahorse
   Hippocampus fuscus Rüppell, 1838 -- Sea Pony
   Hippocampus grandiceps Kuiter, 2001 -- Big-head Seahorse
   Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829 -- Long-snouted Seahorse
   Hippocampus hendriki Kuiter, 2001 -- Eastern Spiny Seahorse
   Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Short-snouted Seahorse
   Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856 -- Thorny Seahorse
   Hippocampus ingens Girard, 1858 -- Pacific Seahorse
   Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900 -- Jayakars Seahorse
   Hippocampus jugumus Kuiter, 2001 -- Collared Seahorse
   Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan and Snyder, 1901 -- Great Seahorse
   Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852 -- Spotted Seahorse
   Hippocampus lichtensteinii Kaup, 1856 -- Lichtensteins Seahorse
   Hippocampus minotaur Gomon, 1997 -- Bullneck Seahorse
   Hippocampus mohnikei Bleeker, 1854 -- Japanese Seahorse
   Hippocampus montebelloensis Kuiter, 2001 -- Monte Bello Seahorse
   Hippocampus multispinus Kuiter, 2001 -- Northern Spiny Seahorse
   Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001 -- High-crown Seahorse
   Hippocampus queenslandicus Horne, 2001 -- Queensland Seahorse
   Hippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933 -- Longsnout Seahorse
   Hippocampus semispinosus Kuiter, 2001 -- Half-spined Seahorse
   Hippocampus sindonis Jordan and Snyder, 1901 -- Shihos Seahorse
   Hippocampus spinosissimus Weber, 1913 -- Hedgehog Seahorse
   Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873 -- West Australian Seahorse
   Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach, 1814 -- Longnose Seahorse
   Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855 -- Whites Seahorse
   Hippocampus zebra Whitley, 1964 -- Zebra Seahorse
   Hippocampus zosterae Jordan and Gilbert, 1882 -- Dwarf Seahorse
   Histiogamphelus briggsii McCulloch, 1914 -- Briggs Pipefish
   Histiogamphelus cristatus (Macleay, 1881) -- Macleays Crested Pipefish
   Hypselognathus horridus Dawson and Glover, 1982 -- Prickly Pipefish
   Hypselognathus rostratus (Waite and Hale, 1921) -- Knife-snouted Pipefish
   Ichthyocampus bikiniensis Herald, 1953
   Ichthyocampus carce (Hamilton, 1822) -- Freshwater Pipefish
   Kaupus costatus (Waite and Hale, 1921)
   Kimblaeus bassensis Dawson, 1980 -- Trawl Pipefish
   Leptoichthys fistularius Kaup, 1853 -- Brush-tailed Pipefish
   Leptonotus blainvilleanus (Eydoux and Gervais, 1837) -- Deep-bodied Pipefish
   Leptonotus elevatus (Hutton, 1872) -- Pipefish
   Leptonotus norae (Waite, 1910) -- Longsnout Pipefish
   Lissocampus bannwarthi (Duncker, 1915)
   Lissocampus caudalis Waite and Hale, 1921 -- Smooth Pipefish
   Lissocampus fatiloquus (Whitley, 1943) -- Prophets Pipefish
   Lissocampus filum (Gunther, 1870) -- Shortsnout Pipefish
   Lissocampus runa (Whitley, 1931) -- Javelin Pipefish
   Maroubra perserrata Whitley, 1948 -- Sawtooth Pipefish
   Maroubra yasudai Dawson, 1983 -- Orange Pipefish
   Micrognathus andersonii (Bleeker, 1858) -- Shortnose Pipefish
   Micrognathus brevirostris_brevirostris (Rüppell, 1838)
   Micrognathus brevirostris_pygmaeus Fritzsche, 1981 -- Thorntailed Pipefish
   Micrognathus crinitus (Jenyns, 1842) -- Banded Pipefish
   Micrognathus erugatus Herald and Dawson, 1974
   Micrognathus micronotopterus (Fowler, 1938)
   Micrognathus natans Dawson, 1982
   Microphis argulus (Peters, 1855) -- Flat-nosed Pipepish
   Microphis brachyurus_aculeatus (Kaup, 1856)
   Microphis brachyurus_brachyurus (Bleeker, 1853) -- Short-tailed Pipefish
   Microphis brachyurus_lineatus (Kaup, 1856)
   Microphis brachyurus_millepunctatus (Kaup, 1856) -- Shorttail Pipefish
   Microphis brevidorsalis (de Beaufort, 1913)
   Microphis caudocarinatus (Weber, 1907) -- Slender Pipefish
   Microphis cruentus Dawson and Fourmanoir, 1981
   Microphis cuncalus (Hamilton, 1822) -- Crocodile-tooth Pipefish
   Microphis deocata (Hamilton, 1822) -- Deocata Pipefish
   Microphis dunckeri (Prashad and Mukerji, 1929)
   Microphis fluviatilis (Peters, 1852) -- Freshwater Pipefish
   Microphis insularis (Hora, 1925) -- Andaman Pipefish
   Microphis jagorii Peters, 1869
   Microphis leiaspis (Bleeker, 1853) -- Barhead Pipefish
   Microphis manadensis (Bleeker, 1856) -- Menado Pipefish
   Microphis mento (Bleeker, 1856)
   Microphis ocellatus (Duncker, 1910)
   Microphis pleurostictus Peters, 1869
   Microphis retzii (Bleeker, 1856) -- Ragged-tail Pipefish
   Microphis spinachioides (Duncker, 1915) -- Spinach Pipefish
   Minyichthys brachyrhinus (Herald, 1953)
   Minyichthys inusitatus Dawson, 1983
   Minyichthys myersi (Herald and Randall, 1972) -- Myers Pipefish
   Minyichthys sentus Dawson, 1982
   Mitotichthys meraculus (Whitley, 1948) -- Western Crested Pipefish
   Mitotichthys mollisoni (Scott, 1955) -- Mollisons Pipefish
   Mitotichthys semistriatus (Kaup, 1856) -- Half-banded Pipefish
   Mitotichthys tuckeri (Scott, 1942) -- Tuckers Pipefish
   Nannocampus elegans Smith, 1961 -- Elegant Pipefish
   Nannocampus pictus (Duncker, 1915) -- Reef Pipefish
   Nannocampus subosseus Gunther, 1870 -- Bony-headed Pipefish
   Nannocampus weberi Duncker, 1915
   Nerophis lumbriciformis (Jenyns, 1835) -- Worm Pipefish
   Nerophis maculatus Rafinesque, 1810
   Nerophis ophidion (Linnaeus, 1758) -- Straightnose Pipefish
   Notiocampus ruber (Ramsay and Ogilby, 1886) -- Red Pipefish
   Penetopteryx nanus (Rosén, 1911) -- Lost Pipefish
   Penetopteryx taeniocephalus Lunel, 1881
   Phoxocampus belcheri (Kaup, 1856) -- Rock Pipefish
   Phoxocampus diacanthus (Schultz, 1943) -- Spined Pipefish
   Phoxocampus tetrophthalmus (Bleeker, 1858)
   Phycodurus eques (Gunther, 1865) -- Leafy Seadragon
   Phyllopteryx taeniolatus (Lacepede, 1804) -- Common Seadragon
   Pseudophallus elcapitanensis (Meek and Hildebrand, 1914)
   Pseudophallus mindii (Meek and Hildebrand, 1923)
   Pseudophallus starksii (Jordan and Culver, 1895)
   Pugnaso curtirostris (Castelnau, 1872) -- Pug-nosed Pipefish
   Siokunichthys bentuviai Clark, 1966
   Siokunichthys breviceps Smith, 1963
   Siokunichthys herrei Herald, 1953
   Siokunichthys nigrolineatus Dawson, 1983
   Siokunichthys southwelli (Duncker, 1910) -- Southwells Pipefish
   Solegnathus dunckeri Whitley, 1927
   Solegnathus hardwickii (Gray, 1830) -- Hardwickes Pipefish
   Solegnathus lettiensis Bleeker, 1860Vertebrata/Fish/Syngnathidae -- Species
   Solegnathus spinosissimus (Gunther, 1870) -- Spiny Pipehorse
   Stigmatopora argus (Richardson, 1840) -- Spotted Pipefish
   Stigmatopora macropterygia Duméril, 1870 -- Long-snouted Pipefish
   Stigmatopora nigra Kaup, 1856 -- Wide-bodied Pipefish
   Stipecampus cristatus (McCulloch and Waite, 1918) -- Ring-backed Pipefish
   Syngnathoides biaculeatus (Bloch, 1785) -- Alligator Pipefish
   Syngnathus abaster Risso, 1827 -- Black-striped Pipefish
   Syngnathus acus Linnaeus, 1758 -- Greater Pipefish
   Syngnathus affinis Gunther, 1870 -- Texas Pipefish
   Syngnathus auliscus (Swain, 1882) -- Barred Pipefish
   Syngnathus californiensis Storer, 1845 -- Kelp Pipefish
   Syngnathus caribbaeus Dawson, 1979 -- Caribbean Pipefish
   Syngnathus carinatus (Gilbert, 1892)
   Syngnathus dawsoni (Herald, 1969)
   Syngnathus euchrous Fritzsche, 1980 -- Chocolate Pipefish
   Syngnathus exilis (Osburn and Nichols, 1916) -- Barcheek Pipefish
   Syngnathus floridae (Jordan and Gilbert, 1882) -- Dusky Pipefish
   Syngnathus folletti Herald, 1942
   Syngnathus fuscus Storer, 1839 -- Northern Pipefish
   Syngnathus insulae Fritzsche, 1980
   Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard, 1854 -- Bay Pipefish
   Syngnathus louisianae Gunther, 1870 -- Chain Pipefish
   Syngnathus macrobrachium Fritzsche, 1980
   Syngnathus macrophthalmus Duncker, 1915
   Syngnathus makaxi Herald and Dawson, 1972
   Syngnathus pelagicus Linnaeus, 1758 -- Sargassum Pipefish
   Syngnathus phlegon Risso, 1827
   Syngnathus rostellatus Nilsson, 1855 -- Nilssons Pipefish
   Syngnathus safina Paulus, 1992
   Syngnathus schlegeli Kaup, 1856 -- Seaweed Pipefish
   Syngnathus schmidti Popov, 1927
   Syngnathus scovelli (Evermann and Kendall, 1896) -- Gulf Pipefish
   Syngnathus springeri Herald, 1942 -- Bull Pipefish
   Syngnathus taenionotus Canestrini, 1871
   Syngnathus tenuirostris Rathke, 1837 -- Narrow-snouted Pipefish
   Syngnathus typhle Linnaeus, 1758 -- Broad-nosed Pipefish
   Syngnathus variegatus Pallas, 1814
   Syngnathus watermeyeri Smith, 1963 -- River Pipefish
   Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus (Bleeker, 1857) -- Double-ended Pipefish
   Trachyrhamphus longirostris Kaup, 1856
   Trachyrhamphus serratus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1850)
   Urocampus carinirostris Castelnau, 1872 -- Hairy Pipefish
   Urocampus nanus Gunther, 1870 -- Barbed Pipefish
   Vanacampus margaritifer (Peters, 1868) -- Mother-of-pearl Pipefish
   Vanacampus phillipi (Lucas, 1891) -- Port Phillip Pipefish
   Vanacampus poecilolaemus (Peters, 1868)
   Vanacampus vercoi (Waite and Hale, 1921) -- Vercos Pipefish

Updated: 2015-05-06 21:40:39

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