schmidti, Syngnathus Popov [A. M.] 1928:391, Fig. [Ezhegodnik, Zoologicheskago Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk v. 28 (for 1927); ref. 15817] Off Caucasian, Crimean, Romanien and Bulgarian coasts of the Black Sea. Syntypes: ?BMNH 1929.8.7.13 [ex ZIN] (1); ZIN 21011-14 (2, 1, 1, 1), 21018 (2), 21035-37 (6+, 6, 1), 21091 (1), 21183 (1), 21639-43 (6+, 1, 1, 2, 1). •Valid as Syngnathus schmidti Popov 1928 [date changed 5 Feb. 1928] -- (Wheeler 1973:275 [ref. 7190], Dawson in Whitehead et al. 1986:637 [ref. 13676], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:67 [ref. 26753] dated 1928, Fricke et al. 2007:75 [ref. 29533], Vasil'eva 2007:75 [ref. 30517], Ninua & Japoshvili 2008:170 [ref. 31251], Kuiter 2009:250 [ref. 30404], Parin et al. 2014:210 [ref. 33547], Hamilton et al. 2016:Supplement 3 [ref. 35615], Artüz & Fricke 2019:555 [ref. 36612], Abliazov et al. 2021:9 [ref. 38576], Niță et al. 2022:142 [ref. 40471]). Current status: Valid as Syngnathus schmidti Popov 1928. Syngnathidae: Syngnathinae. Distribution: Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Sea of Marmara. Habitat: brackish.