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 282116 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Hippocampus tuberculatus   Castelnau, 1875
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: B. Hutchins, Western Australian Museum Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: B. Hutchins, Western Australian Museum Family: 37 282 Syngnathidae (Pipefishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Knobby Seahorse Common Names List: knobby seahorse Organism Type: a pipefish Synonyms: Hippocampus breviceps Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 37 282900     Hippocampus spp.

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. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 20 m.

Taxon Notes:	Until Kuiter (2001), this species was considered a synonym of H. breviceps. Western Australian records of H. breviceps are probably H. tuberculatus.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a028012b-0ac0-49bc-9e34-e01f07a0ff2c Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 1542 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:306828 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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