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The 'Meeting of the Nomenclature
Committee' of the 'Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of
Wild Fauna and Fauna and Flora' 19th August 2003, adopted Lourie et al. (1999)
as the standard taxonomy for the genera Hippocampus. Lourie et al.
(1999) considers H. elongatus as a synonym of H.
angustus.
Hippocampus angustus,
Western Spiny Seahorse, Gunther 1870, from Project Seahorse 2004.
Hippocampus elongatus,
Western Australian Seahorse, Castelnau 1873, from Project Seahorse 2004.
We are revising the taxonomy and
the range of the seahorses of southern Australasia for the conservation of the
different types of seahorses.
Description: Height 16 cm (Project
Seahorse 2004), Height to at Least 16 cm (Kuiter 2000).
Range: Western Australia,
sub-tropical (Kuiter 2000).
Distribution: To 10 meters depth.
Very common in the Swan River Estuary in summer (Kuiter 2000).
Habitat: Mixed reef and vegetation habitats
For the relationship of the Seahorse Species Profile to other
southern Australasian seahorses see
Seahorse "Species Key" and "Meristics Table" for
Southern Australasia
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