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Hippocampus taeniopterus Bleeker 1852
Description
Hippocampus taeniopterus Bleeker 1852 —Common seahorse (Fig. 38)
Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 16 May 2009, and by Dean Tully at 1 m depth on 19 Sept. 2015, and at 8 m depth on 26 Sept. 2015. Previously misidentified as Hippocampus kuda (non Bleeker, 1852) by Duncker & Mohr 1925: 18 (Kavieng, New Ireland), based on ZMH 12952 (2).
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Indonesia and Papua New Guinea east to Fiji, south to New Caledonia. Found among seagrass and in mud habitats, 5–30 m depth. Marine.
Notes
Published as part of Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, pp. 1-360 in Zootaxa 4588 (1) on page 95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2988163
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Hippocampus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bleeker
- Species
- taeniopterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hippocampus taeniopterus Bleeker, 1852 sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Duncker, G. & Mohr, E. (1925) Die Fische der Sudsee-Expedition der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Stiftung 1908 - 1909. 1. Teil (Fistulariidae, Centriscidae, Syngnathidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum in Hamburg, 41, 93 - 112, pl. 2.