Marine fishes from Galicia (NW Spain): an updated checklist
Author
Mucientes, Gonzalo
Author
Arronte, Juan Carlos
text
Zootaxa
2010
2667
1
27
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.276366
9090b504-84cb-4077-a79e-ad43fc9b0c3d
1175-5326
276366
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
).
FIGURE 8.
Fistularia
petimba
(photo C. Sande).
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