Syngnathidae


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Noun1.Syngnathidae - pipefishes
family Syngnathidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Solenichthyes, Solenichthyes - bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout
pipefish, needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
genus Syngnathus, Syngnathus - type genus of the family Syngnathidae
Cosmocampus, genus Cosmocampus - a genus of fish in the family Syngnathidae
genus Hippocampus, Hippocampus - seahorses
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Spatial and habitat-mediated food web dynamics in an oyster-dominated estuary
The family Syngnathidae (pipefishes and seahorses) consists of about 232 species of which 18 (mostly in the genus Microphis) are known only from freshwater and about 37 are euryhaline (Nelson, 2006).
Apparent persistence of a landlocked population of Gulf pipefish, Syngnathus scovelli
The second instructive example of sex role reversal is that of seahorses and pipefishes, in the family Syngnathidae (collectively called syngnathids).
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