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Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810
Taxonomic Serial No.: 166487

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Hippocampus ramulosus Leach in Leach and Nodder, 1814
	Common Name(s):	seahorses [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2004

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Acanthopterygii
	Order	Gasterosteiformes – pipefishes, sticklebacks
	Suborder	Syngnathoidei – pipefishes, seahorses, hippocampes
	Family	Syngnathidae – pipefishes, seahorses, hippocampes, peces pipa y caballitos de mar
	Subfamily	Hippocampinae
	Genus	Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810 – seahorses
		Direct Children:
	Species	Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827 – large seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus alatus Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856
	Species	Hippocampus angustus Günther, 1870
	Species	Hippocampus arnei (Roule, 1916)
	Species	Hippocampus barbouri Jordan and Richardson, 1908
	Species	Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970
	Species	Hippocampus bicuspis Kaup, 1856
	Species	Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus bleekeri Fowler, 1907
	Species	Hippocampus borboniensis Duméril, 1870
	Species	Hippocampus breviceps Peters, 1869
	Species	Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854 – giraffe seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900 – Knysna seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus chinensis Basilewsky, 1855
	Species	Hippocampus colemani Kuiter, 2003
	Species	Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1849
	Species	Hippocampus coronatus Temminck and Schlegel, 1850 – common japanese seahorse, horned seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus curvicuspis Fricke, 2004
	Species	Hippocampus dahli Ogilby, 1908
	Species	Hippocampus debelius Gomon and Kuiter, 2009
	Species	Hippocampus denise Lourie and Randall, 2003
	Species	Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810 – lined seahorse, spotted seahorse, caballito erecto, caballito estriado
	Species	Hippocampus europaeus Ginsburg, 1933
	Species	Hippocampus fisheri Jordan and Evermann, 1903
	Species	Hippocampus fuscus Rüppell, 1838
	Species	Hippocampus grandiceps Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829
	Species	Hippocampus hendriki Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus hilonis Jordan & Evermann, 1903
	Species	Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) – seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856 – thorny seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus ingens Girard, 1858 – Pacific giant seahorse, Pacific seahorse, caballito del Pacífico
	Species	Hippocampus japonicus Kaup, 1856 – coral seahorse, japan seahorse, coral seahorse, Japan seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900
	Species	Hippocampus jugumus Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus kampylotrachelos Bleeker, 1854
	Species	Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan and Snyder, 1901
	Species	Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852 – spotted seahorse, yellow seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus lichtensteinii Kaup, 1856
	Species	Hippocampus manadensis Bleeker, 1856
	Species	Hippocampus minotaur Gomon, 1997
	Species	Hippocampus mohnikei Bleeker, 1853
	Species	Hippocampus moluccensis Bleeker, 1852
	Species	Hippocampus montebelloensis Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus multispinus Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus natalensis von Bonde, 1923
	Species	Hippocampus paradoxus Foster & Gomon, 2010
	Species	Hippocampus patagonicus Piacentino and Luzzatto, 2004
	Species	Hippocampus planifrons Peters, 1877 – lowcrowned seahorse, lowcrowned seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus polytaenia Bleeker, 1854
	Species	Hippocampus pontohi Lourie & Kuiter, 2008
	Species	Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus pusillus Fricke, 2004
	Species	Hippocampus queenslandicus Horne, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933 – longsnout seahorse, caballito narizon, caballito hocico largo
	Species	Hippocampus satomiae Lourie & Kuiter, 2008
	Species	Hippocampus semispinosus Kuiter, 2001
	Species	Hippocampus sindonis Jordan and Snyder, 1901
	Species	Hippocampus spinosissimus Weber, 1913 – spiny seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873
	Species	Hippocampus suezensis Duncker, 1940
	Species	Hippocampus taeniopterus Bleeker, 1852
	Species	Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach in Leach and Nodder, 1814 – longnose seahorse
	Species	Hippocampus tristis Castelnau, 1872
	Species	Hippocampus tuberculatus Castelnau, 1875
	Species	Hippocampus tyro Randall & Lourie, 2009
	Species	Hippocampus villosus Günther, 1880
	Species	Hippocampus waleananus Gomon and Kuiter, 2009
	Species	Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855
	Species	Hippocampus zebra Whitley, 1964
	Species	Hippocampus zosterae Jordan and Gilbert, 1882 – dwarf seahorse, little seahorse, pygmy seahorse, caballito oliváceo, caballito enano

References


	Expert(s):
	Expert:
	Notes:
	Reference for:

	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)
	Acquired:	2004
	Notes:	http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Source:	Checklist of CITES Species Part 1 CITES species index, CD-ROM (version 2011)
	Acquired:	2011
	Notes:	UNEP-WCMC (Comps.) 2011. Checklist of CITES species (CD-ROM). CITES Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland, and UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ISBN 2-88323-030-7. Available online at http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/pub/checklist11/index.html or from CITES Secretariat, Chemin des Anémones, 1219 Châtelaine, Genève, Switzerland
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N.
	Publication Date:	1990
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Genera of Recent Fishes
	Page(s):	iii + 697
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, CA, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-23-8
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	Catalog of Fishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
	Page(s):	2905
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, California, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-47-5
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Lourie, Sara A., Amanda C. J. Vincent, and Heather J. Hall
	Publication Date:	1999
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Seahorses. An identification guide to the world's species and their conservation
	Page(s):	x + 214
	Publisher:	Project Seahorse
	Publication Place:	London, United kingdom
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-9534693-0-1
	Notes:	Updates and additional information avalable online at the Project Seahorse website http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Lourie, Sara A., Sarah J. Foster, Ernest W. T. Cooper, and Amanda C. J. Vincent
	Publication Date:	2004
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	A Guide to the Identification of Seahorses
	Page(s):	ii + 114
	Publisher:	Project Seahorse and TRAFFIC North America
	Publication Place:	Washington DC, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-89164-169-6
	Notes:	Available online at http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/why-seahorses/species
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Nelson, Joseph S.
	Publication Date:	1994
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Fishes of the World, Third Edition
	Page(s):	xvii + 600
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-54713-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Shiino, Sueo M.
	Publication Date:	1976
	Article/Chapter Title:	List of Common Names of Fishes of the World, Those Prevailing among English-speaking Nations
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Science Report of Shima Marineland, no. 4
	Page(s):	262
	Publisher:	Shima Marineland
	Publication Place:	Kashikojima, Shima, Mie, Japan
	ISBN/ISSN:	0385-1109
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Hippocampus

Geographic Information


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Comments


	Comment:	CITES: Appendix II adopted at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (Doha, 2010)

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