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Hippocampus comes Cantor 1849
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Description
H. comes Cantor 1849
English common names. Tiger-tail Seahorse, tiger-tailed seahorse. Holotype. BMNH 1982.6.17.9 [ex 1860.3.19.532].
Type locality. Penang, Malaysia.
Synonyms. None.
Distribution. India (Andaman Islands), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam.
Notes. BOLD (2016) data suggest that H. comes is most closely related to H. angustus and H. subelongatus from Shark Bay, Western Australia, with a divergence of 2.73%.
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 pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/268078
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BOLD
- Scientific name authorship
- Cantor
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Hippocampus
- Species
- comes
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1849 sec. Lourie, Pollom & Foster, 2016
References
- Cantor, T. (1849) Catalog of Malayan fishes. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 18, i - xii + 983 - 1443 + Plates I - XIV.