WoRMS taxon details

Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810

159445  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159445)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Perry, G. (1810). Ichthyology. <em>In: Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects... London.</em> 384 pp., 84 pls. v. 1: unnum. pp., unnum. pls. [Ichthyology on unnumbered pp. 83-84, 1 pl.]. [details]   
Distribution Nova Scotia (rare), southward to Bermuda, the Bahamas, shores of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Lesser Antilles,...  
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]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2023). FishBase. Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159445 on 2023-12-08
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2005-05-30 07:43:33Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description Perry, G. (1810). Ichthyology. <em>In: Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects... London.</em> 384 pp., 84 pls. v. 1: unnum. pp., unnum. pls. [Ichthyology on unnumbered pp. 83-84, 1 pl.]. [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details]   

basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [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 Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H.L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéque, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C.W.; Mooney, T.A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L.K.; Rice, A.N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Sprie, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M.J.G. Underwater Soniferous Behavior Trait Provided in the World Register of Marine Species. <em>(In preparation).</em>  [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
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]
LanguageName 
English lined seahorse  [details]
Spanish caballito estriado  [details]
Turkish denizati  [details]