Syngnathus acus
Linnaeus, 1758 · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Syngnathus acus's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation9 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility7 021 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System9 778 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI86 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics48 specimens↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Syngnathus temminckii (longsnout pipefish) is the most common pipefish in southern African estuaries, ranging from Walvis Bay (Namibia) to the Tugela River on the east coast of South Africa.Heemstra, P.C. (2004) Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa. NISC (PTY) LTD The fish is named in honor of Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858), the director of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Leiden, Netherlands), where the type specimens are housed.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Habitat & environment3
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Syngnathus acus across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Documented compounds2 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| GVLALIAFAWFGPO-XZBKPIIZSA-N | present | NPASS | |
| N-phenyl-2-naphthylamine | present | NPASS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Syngnathus acus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Syngnathus acus carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type16 799 records
Origin
Range
Depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions19 of 53 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO)location not on record | 318 |
| South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversitylocation not on record | 87 |
| Paris, FR | 54 |
| Stockholm, SE | 41 |
| DASSHlocation not on record | 38 |
| Ilvolocation not on record | 35 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 23 |
| 20 | |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 17 |
| Barcelona, ES | 14 |
| VUB/UGentlocation not on record | 14 |
| RWSlocation not on record | 14 |
| SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung Münchenlocation not on record | 11 |
| MZLUlocation not on record | 10 |
| CASlocation not on record | 10 |
| Cambridge, US | 7 |
| FishBaselocation not on record | 6 |
| ICM-CSIClocation not on record | 5 |
| PNHSlocation not on record | 5 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 4 |
| Vlaams Instituut voor de Zeelocation not on record | 3 |
| 730location not on record | 3 |
| IEO-COMA-CSIClocation not on record | 3 |
| Copenhagen, DK | 3 |
| Geneva, CH | 3 |
| IZWOlocation not on record | 3 |
| Helsinki, FI | 3 |
| Toronto, CA | 3 |
| National Natural History Collectionslocation not on record | 2 |
| Los Angeles, US | 2 |
| University of California San Diegolocation not on record | 2 |
| Station Biologique de Roscoff (EDMO:521)location not on record | 2 |
| New Haven, US | 2 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Zoologisches Museum Hamburglocation not on record | 2 |
| Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii Polskiej Akademii Nauklocation not on record | 2 |
| Turkmen Agricultural University named after S.A. Niyazovlocation not on record | 2 |
| GIMARISlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bourges, FR | 1 |
| Washington, US | 1 |
| CLOlocation not on record | 1 |
| ISTPM (Ifremer Nantes)location not on record | 1 |
| Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeirolocation not on record | 1 |
| Tromsø, NO | 1 |
| Bergen, NO | 1 |
| Brussels, BE | 1 |
| UGentlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museum national d'Histoire naturellelocation not on record | 1 |
| IEOlocation not on record | 1 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 1 |
| Institut Francais pour l'Etude de la Merlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo civico La Terra e l'Uomo di Crocetta del Montellolocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Syngnathus acus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.