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