WoRMS taxon details
Syngnathus temminckii Kaup, 1856
306936 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:306936)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of lophobranchiate fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> i-iv + 1-76, Pls. 1-4. [details]
Status Morphological data showed that S. temminckii is distinct from the broadly distributed European pipefish Syngnathus acus
Status Morphological data showed that S. temminckii is distinct from the broadly distributed European pipefish Syngnathus acus [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Syngnathus temminckii Kaup, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=306936 on 2025-04-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of lophobranchiate fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> i-iv + 1-76, Pls. 1-4. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Mwale, M.; Kaiser, H.; Barker, N. P.; Wilson, A. B.; Teske, P. R. (2013). Identification of a uniquely southern African clade of coastal pipefishesSyngnathusspp. <em>Journal of Fish Biology.</em> 82(6): 2045-2062., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12130 [details] Available for editors
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Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]





From editor or global species database
Status Morphological data showed that S. temminckii is distinct from the broadly distributed European pipefish Syngnathus acus [details]