WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810
AphiaID: 159445
AphiaID: 159445
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Syngnathiformes (Order) > Syngnathidae (Family) > Hippocampinae (Subfamily) > Hippocampus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Hippocampus brunneus Bean, 1906 Hippocampus fascicularis Kaup, 1856 Hippocampus hudsonius DeKay, 1842 Hippocampus kincaidi Townsend & Barbour, 1906 Hippocampus laevicaudatus Kaup, 1856 Hippocampus marginalis Kaup, 1856 Hippocampus punctulatus Guichenot, 1853 Hippocampus stylifer Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 Hippocampus tetragonous (Mitchill, 1814) Hippocampus villosus Günther, 1880 Syngnathus caballus Larrañaga, 1923 Syngnathus tetragonous Mitchill, 1814 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (24 nucleotides; 15 proteins) To IUCN Red List To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds by sucking in small organisms, using its long face as a pipette [details] Distribution: Nova Scotia (rare), southward to Bermuda, the Bahamas, shores of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean coast of Panama, and Columbia, and the Atlantic coast of South America to Uruguay. [details] Habitat: Generally in coastal waters; often around man-made structures. [details] Habitat: nektonic [details] Importance: Social- Commercial, fishery, aquarium [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159445 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159445 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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