CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 282136 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Hippocampus denise Lourie & Randall, 2003
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 282 Syngnathidae (Pipefishes) - show full list
Standard Name:	[a seahorse]
Common Names List:	Denise's pygmy seahorse
Organism Type:	a seahorse
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes:	37 282900 Hippocampus spp.

Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2012-07-05.
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Expected species depth range is from 12 to 100 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

The first Australian record of this species was collected from c. 100m depth off Cairns in the Coral Sea (Foster et al 2012).

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:baf3590d-6bae-4685-9634-27f3d83544d4 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	4772 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275193 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report