Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810 (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Hippocampus brunneus Bean, 1906 (synonym)

Hippocampus fascicularis Kaup, 1856 (synonym)

Hippocampus hudsonius DeKay, 1842 (synonym)

Hippocampus kincaidi Townsend & Barbour, 1906 (synonym)

Hippocampus laevicaudatus Kaup, 1856 (synonym)

Hippocampus marginalis Kaup, 1856 (synonym)

Hippocampus punctulatus Guichenot, 1853 (synonym)

Hippocampus stylifer Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 (synonym)

Hippocampus tetragonous Mitchill, 1814 (synonym)

Hippocampus villosus Günther, 1880 (synonym)

Common names:

Amerikansk Jättesjöhäst Swedish

Cabai di awa Papiamento

Caballito de mar Spanish

Caballito erecto Spanish

Caballito estriado Spanish

Caballito punteado Spanish

Cavalinho-do-mar Portuguese

Cavalo-marinho Portuguese

Hipocampo Portuguese

Hippocampe rayé French

Horsefish English

Lined Seahorse English

Northern seahorse English

Sea horse English

Seahorse English

Spotted sea horse English

Spotted seahorse English

Zeepaardje Dutch

Vestatlantisk søhest Danish

北方海馬 Mandarin Chinese

北方海马 Mandarin Chinese

直立海馬 Mandarin Chinese

直立海马 Mandarin Chinese

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Syngnathiformes

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Family Syngnathidae

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Genus Hippocampus

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Distribution:

Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Aruba; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic, Northwest; Atlantic, Southeast; Atlantic, Southwest; Atlantic, Western Central; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Brazil; Canada; Cape Verde; Caribbean Sea; Cayman Islands; Colombia; Cuba; Curaçao Island; Dominica; Dominican Republic; East Brazil Shelf; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Gulf of Mexico; Haiti; Martinique; Mexico; Montserrat; North Brazil Shelf; Panama; Patagonian Shelf; Puerto Rico; Saint Helena; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent & the Grenadines; Sao Tome and Principe; Scotian Shelf; South Brazil Shelf; Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Is.; USA (contiguous states); Venezuela; Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and northern Gulf of Mexico to Panama and Venezuela. A southern form that may prove to be a separate species is known from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and questionably from Suriname. International trade is monitored thro

Additional data:

Author from CoF (Eschmeyer, Jan. 2004: Ref. 50838). Was Perry, 1810-11 in FB Dec. 2004. Check to be "Author cited in Ref. 7251 as Perry, 1810-11."

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2007

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 13-Aug-1998

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:dc2a93ae-29c1-102b-9a4a-00304854f820:ac2008


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