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TABLE 2 in Bargibant's pygmy seahorse Hippocampus bargibanti in Taiwan Bank: hidden biodiversity of Taiwan Strait

  • 1. Marine Ecology and Conservation Research Center, National Academy of Marine Research, Kaohsiung 806614, Taiwan, R. O. C. & Department of Aquaculture, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Penghu 880011, Taiwan, R. O. C.
  • 2. Marine Ecology and Conservation Research Center, National Academy of Marine Research, Kaohsiung 806614, Taiwan, R. O. C.
  • 3. Fisheries Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Keelung 202008, Taiwan, R. O. C.
  • 4. Marine Ecology and Conservation Research Center, National Academy of Marine Research, Kaohsiung 806614, Taiwan, R. O. C. & Department of Oceanography, and Institute of Marine Ecology and Conservation, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804201, Taiwan, R. O. C. & Institute of Marine Biology, National Dong Hwa University, and National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium, Pingtung 944401, Taiwan, R. O. C.

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TABLE 2. Counts and morphometric measurements (expressed as percentages of standard length, head length, or snout length as indicated) of Hippocampus bargibanti discovered by the present study and Lourie and Randall (2003). Values are ranges or means ± standard deviations.

Present studyLourie and Randall
MaleFemaleTotal(2003)
Number of fish2358
Standard length (SL, mm)23.53±1.3423.20±5.0823.3±3.6624.4±1.7
Count
Trunk ring (TrR)12121212
Tail rings (TaR)3130–3230–3231–32
Pectoral fin ray (PF)910–119–1010
Dorsal fin ray (DF)13–1413–1413–1414
Anal fin ray (AF)0000
MaleFemaleTotal(2003)
Proportional measurement
Trunk length (TrL):SL26.95±2.3325.00±4.6925.78±3.6728±1.61
Tail length (TaL):SL57.25±1.7759.07±4.1758.34±3.2356±1.29
Head length (HL):SL15.80±0.5715.93±0.8615.88±0.6817±1.44
Head depth (HD):HL75.85±2.6279.70±1.0178.16±2.5866±3.28
Snout length (SnL):HL30.35±0.4928.23±0.3829.08±1.2222±1.83
Snout depth (SnD):SnL104.85±6.86106.67±4.89105.94±4.97100±20.23
Orbital diameter (OD):HL20.75±1.0621.87±2.0821.42±1.6818±3.10
Post-orbital length (PO):HL53.25±0.4953.93±3.7953.66±2.7257±4.06
Coronet height (CH):HL65.05±6.4370.90±12.1868.56±9.7457±6.26
Trunk depth anterior to the dorsal12.95±0.7811.37±0.3812.00±0.9913±1.61
fin base, between the 9th and
10th trunk rings (TD9):SL
Length of dorsal fin base (DL):SL9.40±1.849.20±0.669.28±1.048±0.74
Length of pectoral fin base (PL):SL3.05±0.073.20±0.953.14±0.683±0.52

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Notes

Published as part of Jiang, Guo-Chen, Chen, Kuo-Shu, Chen, Yi-Hsuan, Weng, Jinn-Shing, Yeh, Hsin-Ming, Shen, Kang-Ning & Chang, Chih-Wei, 2024, Bargibant's pygmy seahorse Hippocampus bargibanti in Taiwan Bank: hidden biodiversity of Taiwan Strait, pp. 121-122 in Zootaxa 5550 (1) on page 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5550.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/14388345

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References

  • Lourie, S. A. & Randall, J. E. (2003) A new pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus denise (Teleostei Syngnathidae) from the Indo-Pacific. Zoological Studies, 42, 284 - 291.