original description
Kaup, J. J. (1856). Catalogue of lophobranchiate fish in the collection of the British Museum. <em>London.</em> i-iv + 1-76, Pls. 1-4. [details]
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
basis of record
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
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
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] 
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856
Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856
Unreviewed
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hippocampus histrix FIN034531 Slide 120 mm)
Hosted externally
Hippocampus histrix ThornySeaHorse DMS
Hippocampus histrix ThornySeaHorse1 DMS