Name - Hippocampus Rafinesque 1810

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:296309 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Hippocampus

• Hippocampus Rafinesque-Schmaltz 1810

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Seahorses of the Hippocampus coronatus complex: taxonomic revision, and description of Hippocampus haema, a new species from Korea and Japan (Teleostei, Syngnathidae).
• Hippocampus japapigu, a new species of pygmy seahorse from Japan, with a redescription of H. pontohi (Teleostei, Syngnathidae).
• Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855, a senior synonym of the southern Queensland seahorse H. procerus Kuiter, 2001: molecular and morphological evidence (Teleostei, Syngnathidae).
• Hippocampus nalu, a new species of pygmy seahorse from South Africa, and the first record of a pygmy seahorse from the Indian Ocean (Teleostei, Syngnathidae).

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Car. n. gen., 1810 1810: 18. [Index Animalium Entry]

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