The name pipe fish is derived from the unusual form of their nose, which is like a long tube, ending in a narrow and small mouth which opens upwards and is toothless. The body and tail are long, thin, and snake-like. They look like seahorses with tiny mouth and a straight-body. Pipefishes or pipe-fishes (Syngnathinae) are a subfamily of small fishes, which, together with the seahorses, form the family Syngnathidae.
Their skeleton is highly adapted into armoured plating. The vertical section of the body looks angular unlike other fishes due to the numerous longitudinal rims on the skeleton. The major way to move in locomotion for a pipe fish is the dorsal fin. The ventral fins are constantly absent, and the other fins may or may not be developed. The gill openings are extremely small and placed near the upper posterior angle of the gill cover.
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