WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873
275211 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275211)
accepted
Species
Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Castelnau, F. L. (1873). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. Nos. III thru IX [with subtitles, indexed as one work]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> 2: 37-158. [Also as part of a separate, Melbourne, 1872.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275211 on 2025-12-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Castelnau, F. L. (1873). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. Nos. III thru IX [with subtitles, indexed as one work]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> 2: 37-158. [Also as part of a separate, Melbourne, 1872.]. [details]
original description (of Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873) Castelnau, F. L. (1873). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. Nos. III thru IX [with subtitles, indexed as one work]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> 2: 37-158. [Also as part of a separate, Melbourne, 1872.].
page(s): 144 [details]
original description (of Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873) Castelnau, F. L. (1873). Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. Nos. III thru IX [with subtitles, indexed as one work]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, Melbourne.</em> 2: 37-158. [Also as part of a separate, Melbourne, 1872.].
page(s): 144 [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] 
Other
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus subelongatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873)
To FishBase
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus subelongatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus elongatus Castelnau, 1873)
To FishBase
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS
