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Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi 1854
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Description
H. camelopardalis Bianconi 1854
English common names. Giraffe Seahorse.
Type specimen. Unknown (but see BMNH 1920.12.6.2).
Type locality. Mozambique.
Synonyms. H. subcoronatus Günther 1866 (in Playfair & Günther 1866).
Distribution. Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania.
Notes. The name H. subcoronatus has barely been used except in Günther’s original description. We synonymize it with H. camelopardalis based on the description, illustration, and our examination of the type specimen.
Notes
Published as part of Sara A. Lourie, Riley A. Pollom & Sarah J. Foster, 2016, A global revision of the Seahorses Hippocampus Rafinesque 1810 (Actinopterygii: Syngnathiformes): Taxonomy and biogeography with recommendations for further research, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4146 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/268078
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bianconi
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Hippocampus
- Species
- camelopardalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854 sec. Lourie, Pollom & Foster, 2016
References
- Bianconi, G. G. (1854) Specimina zoologica mosambicana, Fasciculus VIII: Pisces novi Mozambicani. Rendiconto delle Sessioni dell'Accademia delle Scienze dell'Instituto dei Bologna, 1853 - 1854, 68 - 69.