Species

Sampling: 92 out of 310 species have genetic data (in bold)

Species list
  • Pegasus volitans
  • Bryx dunckeri
  • Bryx randalli
  • Choeroichthys brachysoma
  • Corythoichthys amplexus
  • Corythoichthys flavofasciatus
  • Corythoichthys haematopterus
  • Corythoichthys intestinalis
  • Corythoichthys schultzi
  • Cosmocampus albirostris
  • Cosmocampus elucens
  • Doryrhamphus excisus excisus
  • Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus
  • Dunckerocampus pessuliferus
  • Enneacampus ansorgii
  • Entelurus aequoreus
  • Festucalex cinctus
  • Halicampus grayi
  • Haliichthys taeniophorus
  • Hippichthys penicillus
  • Hippocampus abdominalis
  • Hippocampus algiricus
  • Hippocampus angustus
  • Hippocampus barbouri
  • Hippocampus bargibanti
  • Hippocampus biocellatus
  • Hippocampus breviceps
  • Hippocampus camelopardalis
  • Hippocampus capensis
  • Hippocampus comes
  • Hippocampus coronatus
  • Hippocampus erectus
  • Hippocampus fisheri
  • Hippocampus fuscus
  • Hippocampus guttulatus
  • Hippocampus hippocampus
  • Hippocampus histrix
  • Hippocampus ingens
  • Hippocampus jugumus
  • Hippocampus kelloggi
  • Hippocampus kuda
  • Hippocampus mohnikei
  • Hippocampus patagonicus
  • Hippocampus queenslandicus
  • Hippocampus reidi
  • Hippocampus sindonis
  • Hippocampus spinosissimus
  • Hippocampus subelongatus
  • Hippocampus trimaculatus
  • Hippocampus whitei
  • Hippocampus zosterae
  • Hypselognathus rostratus
  • Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri
  • Kaupus costatus
  • Maroubra perserrata
  • Microphis brachyurus
  • Nerophis lumbriciformis
  • Nerophis ophidion
  • Penetopteryx nanus
  • Phycodurus eques
  • Phyllopteryx taeniolatus
  • Pugnaso curtirostris
  • Solegnathus dunckeri
  • Solegnathus hardwickii
  • Solegnathus lettiensis
  • Stigmatopora argus
  • Stigmatopora macropterygia
  • Stigmatopora narinosa
  • Stigmatopora nigra
  • Syngnathoides biaculeatus
  • Syngnathus abaster
  • Syngnathus acus
  • Syngnathus auliscus
  • Syngnathus californiensis
  • Syngnathus caribbaeus
  • Syngnathus exilis
  • Syngnathus floridae
  • Syngnathus fuscus
  • Syngnathus leptorhynchus
  • Syngnathus louisianae
  • Syngnathus pelagicus
  • Syngnathus rostellatus
  • Syngnathus schlegeli
  • Syngnathus scovelli
  • Syngnathus taenionotus
  • Syngnathus tenuirostris
  • Syngnathus typhle
  • Syngnathus watermeyeri
  • Trachyrhamphus serratus
  • Vanacampus margaritifer
  • Vanacampus phillipi
  • Vanacampus poecilolaemus
  • Eurypegasus draconis
  • Eurypegasus papilio
  • Pegasus lancifer
  • Pegasus laternarius
  • Solenostomus armatus
  • Solenostomus cyanopterus
  • Solenostomus halimeda
  • Solenostomus leptosoma
  • Solenostomus paegnius
  • Solenostomus paradoxus
  • Acentronura breviperula
  • Acentronura gracilissima
  • Acentronura tentaculata
  • Amphelikturus dendriticus
  • Anarchopterus criniger
  • Anarchopterus tectus
  • Apterygocampus epinnulatus
  • Bhanotia fasciolata
  • Bhanotia nuda
  • Bhanotia pauciradiata
  • Bryx analicarens
  • Bryx veleronis
  • Bulbonaricus brauni
  • Bulbonaricus brucei
  • Bulbonaricus davaoensis
  • Campichthys galei
  • Campichthys nanus
  • Campichthys tricarinatus
  • Campichthys tryoni
  • Choeroichthys cinctus
  • Choeroichthys latispinosus
  • Choeroichthys sculptus
  • Choeroichthys smithi
  • Choeroichthys suillus
  • Corythoichthys benedetto
  • Corythoichthys conspicillatus
  • Corythoichthys insularis
  • Corythoichthys nigripectus
  • Corythoichthys ocellatus
  • Corythoichthys paxtoni
  • Corythoichthys polynotatus
  • Cosmocampus arctus arctus
  • Cosmocampus arctus coccineus
  • Cosmocampus balli
  • Cosmocampus banneri
  • Cosmocampus brachycephalus
  • Cosmocampus darrosanus
  • Cosmocampus heraldi
  • Cosmocampus hildebrandi
  • Cosmocampus howensis
  • Cosmocampus investigatoris
  • Cosmocampus maxweberi
  • Cosmocampus profundus
  • Cosmocampus retropinnis
  • Doryichthys boaja
  • Doryichthys contiguus
  • Doryichthys deokhatoides
  • Doryichthys heterosoma
  • Doryichthys martensii
  • Doryrhamphus aurolineatus
  • Doryrhamphus bicarinatus
  • Doryrhamphus excisus abbreviatus
  • Doryrhamphus excisus paulus
  • Doryrhamphus janssi
  • Doryrhamphus japonicus
  • Doryrhamphus negrosensis malus
  • Doryrhamphus negrosensis negrosensis
  • Dunckerocampus baldwini
  • Dunckerocampus boylei
  • Dunckerocampus chapmani
  • Dunckerocampus multiannulatus
  • Dunckerocampus naia
  • Enneacampus kaupi
  • Festucalex erythraeus
  • Festucalex gibbsi
  • Festucalex kulbickii
  • Festucalex prolixus
  • Festucalex scalaris
  • Festucalex wassi
  • Filicampus tigris
  • Halicampus boothae
  • Halicampus brocki
  • Halicampus dunckeri
  • Halicampus edmondsoni
  • Halicampus macrorhynchus
  • Halicampus marquesensis
  • Halicampus mataafae
  • Halicampus nitidus
  • Halicampus punctatus
  • Halicampus spinirostris
  • Halicampus zavorensis
  • Heraldia nocturna
  • Hippichthys albomaculosus
  • Hippichthys cyanospilos
  • Hippichthys heptagonus
  • Hippichthys parvicarinatus
  • Hippichthys spicifer
  • Hippocampus alatus
  • Hippocampus borboniensis
  • Hippocampus colemani
  • Hippocampus curvicuspis
  • Hippocampus debelius
  • Hippocampus denise
  • Hippocampus grandiceps
  • Hippocampus hendriki
  • Hippocampus jayakari
  • Hippocampus lichtensteinii
  • Hippocampus minotaur
  • Hippocampus montebelloensis
  • Hippocampus multispinus
  • Hippocampus paradoxus
  • Hippocampus pontohi
  • Hippocampus procerus
  • Hippocampus pusillus
  • Hippocampus satomiae
  • Hippocampus semispinosus
  • Hippocampus severnsi
  • Hippocampus suezensis
  • Hippocampus tyro
  • Hippocampus waleananus
  • Hippocampus zebra
  • Histiogamphelus briggsii
  • Histiogamphelus cristatus
  • Hypselognathus horridus
  • Ichthyocampus bikiniensis
  • Ichthyocampus carce
  • Idiotropiscis australe
  • Idiotropiscis larsonae
  • Kimblaeus bassensis
  • Kyonemichthys rumengani
  • Leptoichthys fistularius
  • Leptonotus blainvilleanus
  • Leptonotus elevatus
  • Leptonotus norae
  • Lissocampus bannwarthi
  • Lissocampus caudalis
  • Lissocampus fatiloquus
  • Lissocampus filum
  • Lissocampus runa
  • Maroubra yasudai
  • Micrognathus andersonii
  • Micrognathus brevicorpus
  • Micrognathus brevirostris brevirostris
  • Micrognathus brevirostris pygmaeus
  • Micrognathus crinitus
  • Micrognathus erugatus
  • Micrognathus micronotopterus
  • Micrognathus natans
  • Microphis aculeatus
  • Microphis argulus
  • Microphis brevidorsalis
  • Microphis caudocarinatus
  • Microphis cruentus
  • Microphis cuncalus
  • Microphis deocata
  • Microphis dunckeri
  • Microphis fluviatilis
  • Microphis insularis
  • Microphis jagorii
  • Microphis leiaspis
  • Microphis lineatus
  • Microphis manadensis
  • Microphis mento
  • Microphis millepunctatus
  • Microphis ocellatus
  • Microphis pleurostictus
  • Microphis retzii
  • Microphis spinachioides
  • Minyichthys brachyrhinus
  • Minyichthys inusitatus
  • Minyichthys myersi
  • Minyichthys sentus
  • Mitotichthys meraculus
  • Mitotichthys mollisoni
  • Mitotichthys semistriatus
  • Mitotichthys tuckeri
  • Nannocampus elegans
  • Nannocampus lindemanensis
  • Nannocampus pictus
  • Nannocampus subosseus
  • Nannocampus weberi
  • Nerophis maculatus
  • Notiocampus ruber
  • Penetopteryx taeniocephalus
  • Phoxocampus belcheri
  • Phoxocampus diacanthus
  • Phoxocampus tetrophthalmus
  • Pseudophallus elcapitanensis
  • Pseudophallus mindii
  • Pseudophallus starksii
  • Siokunichthys bentuviai
  • Siokunichthys breviceps
  • Siokunichthys herrei
  • Siokunichthys nigrolineatus
  • Siokunichthys southwelli
  • Siokunichthys striatus
  • Solegnathus robustus
  • Solegnathus spinosissimus
  • Stipecampus cristatus
  • Syngnathus affinis
  • Syngnathus carinatus
  • Syngnathus dawsoni
  • Syngnathus euchrous
  • Syngnathus folletti
  • Syngnathus insulae
  • Syngnathus macrobrachium
  • Syngnathus macrophthalmus
  • Syngnathus makaxi
  • Syngnathus phlegon
  • Syngnathus safina
  • Syngnathus schmidti
  • Syngnathus springeri
  • Syngnathus variegatus
  • Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus
  • Trachyrhamphus longirostris
  • Urocampus carinirostris
  • Urocampus nanus
  • Vanacampus vercoi

Fossil calibrations

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Taxonomy

Class
Actinopteri
Subclass
Neopterygii
Infraclass
Teleostei
Megacohort
Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohort
Clupeocephala
Cohort
Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohort
Neoteleostei
Infracohort
Eurypterygia
Section
Ctenosquamata
Subsection
Acanthomorphata
Division
Euacanthomorphacea
Subdivision
Percomorphaceae
Series
Syngnatharia
Order
Syngnathiformes
Suborder
Syngnathoidei
Family
Pegasidae
Solenostomidae
Syngnathidae

Downloads

Download Syngnathoidei data (JSON format)

Phylogenies

There were 69 species that caused Syngnathoidei to be inferred as paraphyletic.

Time-calibrated phylogeny of only species in Syngnathoidei

Time-calibrated phylogeny of "Syngnathoidei"

Phylogram of only species in Syngnathoidei

Phylogram of "Syngnathoidei"

Sequence data

Phylip sequences for Syngnathoidei

RAxML-style partitions file

Nexus file for Syngnathoidei (includes character partitions and phylogeny)