WoRMS taxon details
Hippocampus planifrons Peters, 1877
306811 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:306811)
accepted
Species
Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Peters, W. (C. H.). (1877). Übersicht der während der von 1874 bis 1876 unter dem Commando des Hrn. Capitän z. S. Freiherrn von Schleinitz ausgeführten Reise S. M. S. Gazelle gesammelten und von der Kaiserlichen Admiralität der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften übersandten Fische. <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876.</em> : 831-854. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hippocampus planifrons Peters, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=306811 on 2025-04-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Peters, W. (C. H.). (1877). Übersicht der während der von 1874 bis 1876 unter dem Commando des Hrn. Capitän z. S. Freiherrn von Schleinitz ausgeführten Reise S. M. S. Gazelle gesammelten und von der Kaiserlichen Admiralität der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften übersandten Fische. <em>Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1876.</em> : 831-854. [details]
original description (of Hippocampus biocellatus 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]
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 biocellatus 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]
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]
Taxonomy
status source
Short, G.; Harasti, D.; Hamilton, H. (2019). Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855, a senior synonym of the southern Queensland seahorse H. procerus Kuiter, 2001: molecular and morphological evidence (Teleostei, Syngnathidae). <em>ZooKeys.</em> 824: 109-133., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.824.30921 [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 (2 barcodes) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus biocellatus) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To FishBase images (Hippocampus biocellatus, Australia, by Kuiter, R.H.) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippocampus biocellatus) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To FishBase images (Hippocampus biocellatus, Australia, by Kuiter, R.H.) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
