WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900
212234 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212234)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Boulenger, G. A. (1900). Descriptions of new fishes from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> No. 8: 10-12, Pls. 1-3. [First as a separate, then as pp. 10-12, Pls. 1-3 in v. 1 in 1902.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212234 on 2025-07-28
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Nomenclature
original description
Boulenger, G. A. (1900). Descriptions of new fishes from the Cape of Good Hope. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> No. 8: 10-12, Pls. 1-3. [First as a separate, then as pp. 10-12, Pls. 1-3 in v. 1 in 1902.]. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus capensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Hippocampus capensis, South Africa, by Lourie, S.A.)
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus capensis)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Hippocampus capensis, South Africa, by Lourie, S.A.)
To GenBank (56 nucleotides; 35 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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