WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900
275198 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275198)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Boulenger, G. A. (1900). Description of a new sea-horse (Hippocampus) from Muscat. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 6 (no. 31): 51-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930008678338 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275198 on 2026-08-26
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Nomenclature
original description
Boulenger, G. A. (1900). Description of a new sea-horse (Hippocampus) from Muscat. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 7).</em> v. 6 (no. 31): 51-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930008678338 [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
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). 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 (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus jayakari)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3123072)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hippocampus jayakari FIN034532 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hippocampus jayakari FIN034533 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus jayakari)
To FishBase
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 27 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NHMUK collection (Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900; HOLOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3123072)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hippocampus jayakari FIN034532 Slide 120 mm)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hippocampus jayakari FIN034533 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
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