SYNGNATHIFORMES

Mucientes, Gonzalo & Arronte, Juan Carlos, 2010, Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist, Zootaxa 2667, pp. 1-27 : 14

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6208161
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scientific name	SYNGNATHIFORMES
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ORDER SYNGNATHIFORMES View in CoL View at ENA

Family Fistulariidae

* Fistularia petimba Lacepède, 1803 — red cornetfish

Not mentioned for Galicia by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor Quéro et al. (2003). One specimen of 140 cm TL ( Figure 8 View FIGURE 8 ) caught on 11 May 2006, in Laxe, at the north-west coast of Galicia ( Bañón & Sande, 2008).

Family Centriscidae

* Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758) — Snipe-fish

Family Syngnathidae

* Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829 — Sea horse

* Entelurus aequoreus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Snake pipefish

* Nerophis lumbriciformis (Jenyns, 1835) — Worm pipefish

* Nerophis ophidion (Linnaeus, 1758) — Straight-nosed pipefish

Syngnathus typhl e Linnaeus, 1758 — Deep-snouted pipefish

Syngnathus phlegon Risso, 1827 — No common name

Not mentioned for Galicia neither by Dawson in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded by Lozano y Rey (1947).

* Syngnathus acus Linnaeus, 1758 — Great pipefish

Syngnathus abaster Risso, 1827 — Black-striped pipefish

References

Quero, J. - C., Porche, P. &. Vayne, J. - J. (2003) Guide des poissons de l'Atlantique Europeen, Delachaux & Niestle Ed., 465 pp.

Banon, R. & Sande, C. (2008) First record of the cornetfish Fistularia petimba (Syngnathiformes: Fistularidae) from Galician waters. A northernmost occurrence in the Eastern Atlantic. Journal of Applied Ichthiology, 24, 106 - 107.