- pipefish, needlefish - fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
--1 is a kind of teleost fish, teleost, teleostan
--1 is a member of Syngnathidae, family Syngnathidae
--1 has particulars:dwarf pipefish, Syngnathus hildebrandi; deepwater pipefish, Cosmocampus profundus; seahorse, sea horse