WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855
212235 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212235)
accepted
Species
Hippocampus novaehollandae Steindachner, 1866 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Hippocampus novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1866 · unaccepted
Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bleeker, P. (1855). Over eenige visschen van Van Diemensland. <em>Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam).</em> v. 2 (art. 7): 1-30 + 31, 1 pl. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212235 on 2025-06-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Bleeker, P. (1855). Over eenige visschen van Van Diemensland. <em>Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen (Amsterdam).</em> v. 2 (art. 7): 1-30 + 31, 1 pl. [details]
original description (of Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001) Kuiter, R. H. (2001). Revision of the Australian seahorses of the genus <i>Hippocampus</i> (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) with descriptions of nine new species. <em>Rec. Aus. Mus.</em> 53: 293-340. [details]
original description (of Hippocampus novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1866) Steindachner, F. (1866). Über die Fische von Port Jackson in Australien. <em>Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe.</em> v. 3 (no. 7): 50-54. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
original description (of Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001) Kuiter, R. H. (2001). Revision of the Australian seahorses of the genus <i>Hippocampus</i> (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) with descriptions of nine new species. <em>Rec. Aus. Mus.</em> 53: 293-340. [details]
original description (of Hippocampus novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1866) Steindachner, F. (1866). Über die Fische von Port Jackson in Australien. <em>Anzeiger der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Classe.</em> v. 3 (no. 7): 50-54. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (RAS)
Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (39 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus whitei)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus novaehollandae Steindachner, 1866)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1866)
To FishBase images (Hippocampus procerus, Australia, by Banks, I.) (from synonym Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001)
To GenBank (23185 nucleotides; 43 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hippocampus whitei FIN034537 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1866)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus whitei)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus novaehollandae Steindachner, 1866)
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus novaehollandiae Steindachner, 1866)
To FishBase images (Hippocampus procerus, Australia, by Banks, I.) (from synonym Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001)
To GenBank (23185 nucleotides; 43 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Hippocampus whitei FIN034537 Slide 120 mm)
To ITIS
