Pacific seaweed pipefish

Pacific seaweed pipefish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Subfamily: Syngnathinae
Genus: Syngnathus
Species: S. schlegeli
Binomial name
Syngnathus schlegeli
Kaup, 1856
Synonyms
  • Sygnathoides schlegeli (Kaup, 1856)
  • Syngnathus acusimilis Günther, 1873

The Pacific seaweed pipefish (Syngnathus schlegeli) is a species of pipefish, found in the north-western Pacific Ocean: near Vladivostok (Russia), southern to Gulf of Tonkin. Marine, oceanic demersal fish, up to 30.0 cm length. Common in the zostera growth.

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