Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard 1854

• 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 leptorhynchus; Yukon; Baja; Gulf of Alaska; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5603855; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603855

Syngnathus leptorhynchus Girard, 1854. Bay Pipefish. To 38.5 cm (15.2 in) TL (Bayer 1980). Prince William Sound (Orsi et al. 1991) to eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Santa Maria, southern Baja California (Fritzsche 1980). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 18 m (60 ft) (min.: Chotkowski 1994; max.: Love et al. 1986). 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