SYNGNATHIFORMES

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

ORDER SYNGNATHIFORMES

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 ) 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

Figures

FIGURE 8. Fistularia petimba (photo C. Sande).