Texas Pipefish

Syngnathus affinis

• Group: Seahorse
• For divers: safe

This slender pipefish lives in the coastal lagoons of the Texas coast, threading through shallow water no deeper than a wader's boots. As in all pipefishes the male, not the female, carries the brood, holding the eggs in a pouch beneath his tail until they hatch.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Teleostei › Syngnathiformes › Syngnathidae › Syngnathus

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 275216.