Syngnathus exilis

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Syngnathiformes; Syngnathidae; Syngnathus; Syngnathus exilis; Yukon; Baja; Milton; Scripps; Moon Bay; Half Moon Bay; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5603851; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603851

Syngnathus exilis (Osburn & Nichols, 1916). Barcheek Pipefish. To 30.2 cm (11.9 in) TL (Kristy Forsgren, pers. comm. to M.L.). Half Moon Bay, central California to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California including offshore islands (Fritzche 1980). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California, nightlight), intertidal to perhaps 37 m (120 ft) (min.: Allen 1999; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Garcia et al. (2019) proposed that this species is a junior synonym of Syngnathus californiensis Storer, 1845. Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 103, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008