CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Syngnathiformes (order)  »  Syngnathidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 282005 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Hippocampus angustus   Günther, 1870
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Family: 37 282 Syngnathidae (Pipefishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Western Spiny Seahorse Common Names List: common seahorse Organism Type: a pipefish Synonyms: Hippocampus histrix [mis-identification] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 282900     Hippocampus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 282005, 37 282077, 282077

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19. Occurrence locations [5] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 60 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

The name Hippocampus histrix has been misapplied to a few Australian species. The true H. histrix has not been recorded from Australian waters. The voucher specimen listed for this code was originally labelled as H. histrix but is actually H. angustus.

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2162a641-880c-49e1-a51c-47ddaf34a456 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 1534 View at FoA ITIS 166496 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275185 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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