Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard, 1854

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 103

Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard, 1854 .

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 .