WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856
AphiaID: 212239
AphiaID: 212239
| 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 |
Hippocamphus hystrix Kaup, 1856 (misspelling) Hippocampus hystrix Kaup, 1856 (misspelling) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 11 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A rare inhabitant of shallow sheltered reefs, found among clumps of algae or in seagrass beds. Large adults occur pelagically and porbably associated with drifting debris. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212239 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856. 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=212239 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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