Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810 
AphiaID: 126224

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Chordata > Vertebrata > Gnathostomata > Pisces > Actinopterygii > Syngnathiformes > Syngnathidae > Hippocampinae

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Parent		Hippocampinae
Sources		original description: Rafinesque, C.S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Per le stampe di Sanfilippo: Palermo, Italy. 105, 20 fold. Pl pp. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 18 [details] basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Vernacular Names		Language    Name   English seahorses  [details] German Seepferdchen  [details] Italian cavalluccio marino  [details] Lithuanian paprastieji jūrų arkliukai  [details] Modern Greek (1453-) Ιππόκαμποι  [details] Norwegian sjøhester  [details] Polish koniki morskie  [details] Polish pławikoniki  [details] Russian морской конек  [details] Slovenian morski konjički  [details] Turkish denizatı  [details] Ukrainian Морський коник  [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Species Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829 Species Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment		marine
Distribution		Kenya [details]
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
Images		Hippocampus sp. added on 2009-06-11 - author: Collection Karl-Heinz Dau qualitystatus: not checked Hippocampus sp. added on 2009-06-11 - author: Collection Karl-Heinz Dau qualitystatus: not checked Hippocampus sp. added on 2009-06-11 - author: Collection Karl-Heinz Dau qualitystatus: not checked Hippocampus sp. added on 2009-06-11 - author: Collection Karl-Heinz Dau qualitystatus: not checked Hippocampus sp. added on 2009-06-11 - author: Collection Karl-Heinz Dau qualitystatus: not checked Hippocampus sp. added on 2009-06-11 - author: Collection Karl-Heinz Dau qualitystatus: not checked Hippocampus sp. added on 2010-02-17 - author: Collection VLIZ () qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126224
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   van der Land, Jacob 2006-08-22 12:14:26Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2013-03-11 12:13:38Z   checked   Bailly, Nicolas
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		Citation: BeRMS (2013). Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126224 on 2013-05-18
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