Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cosmocampus coccineus
Agujón, pez pipa chato, Snubnose pipefish
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Syngnathiformes
Family
Syngnathidae
Genus
Cosmocampus
Species
coccineus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cosmocampus arctus coccineus (Herald, 1940), Syngnathus coccineus Herald, 1940, Syngnathus independencia Hildebrand, 1946 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- McCosker, J.E. Rosenblatt, R.H. (2010) The fishes of the Galápagos Archipelago: an update. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sc., Ser. 4, vol. 61, Suppl. II, no. 11: 167-195.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cosmocampus coccineus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20172. Accessed 8 June 2026.