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Taxon: Order Syngnathiformes Berg, 1940 - pipefishes and seahorses (fish)
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Authorship

Original name, rank & spelling:  Берг, Л.С. / Berg, L.S. 1940. Trudy Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR 5 (2): 289 [in Russian], 460 [in English]. ≡
Incorrect (rank-group) authorship:  Rafinesque Schmaltz, C.S. 1810b. Indice Ittiol. Sicil.: 36 ("Ordine. I Signatidi."). [family, nom. vernac.; type-genus is a junior homonym].

Types

Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Syngnathidae (Family) Bonaparte, 1831
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Syngnathoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: 608. [inferred]

Variants

Current rank: Syngnathoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940 Ref: E.O. Wiley & G.D. Johnson, 2010: 127. [indirect]
Former rank: Syngnathoidei (Suborder) Berg, 1940 Ref: R. van der Laan, 2018: 75. [inferred]
Incorrect spelling: Syngnathiiformes (Order) Bailly, Eschmeyer, Froese, Quéro, van der Land, Costello, Zavodnik, Serrão Santos & Mora Porteiro, 2001, orth. inval. Ref: N. Bailly et al. (comps.), 2001: 368. [inferred]

Synonyms

Including: Aulostomoidei (Suborder)

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: troskieuwigen

Vernacular Names (English)

Full name: pipefishes and seahorses Ref: J.S. Nelson et al., 2016: 405.
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