WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus angustus Günther, 1870
275185 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275185)
accepted
Species
Hippocampus erinaceus Günther, 1870 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hippocampus angustus Günther, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=275185 on 2025-04-16
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Nomenclature
original description
Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
original description (of Hippocampus erinaceus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [details]
original description (of Hippocampus erinaceus Günther, 1870) Günther, A. (1870). Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, ...[thru] ... Leptocardii, in the British Museum. v. 8: i-xxv + 1-549. [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
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., 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 (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus erinaceus Günther, 1870)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus angustus)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus erinaceus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Hippocampus angustus, Australia, by Kuiter, R.H.)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus erinaceus Günther, 1870)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus angustus)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus erinaceus Günther, 1870)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Hippocampus angustus, Australia, by Kuiter, R.H.)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
