Hippocampus jugumus

Hippocampus jugumus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Genus: Hippocampus
Species: H. jugumus
Binomial name
Hippocampus jugumus
Kuiter, 2001

Hippocampus jugumus, the collared seahorse, was described in 2001 from a single specimen found in the waters surrounding Lord Howe Island.[1]

References

  1. Rudie H. Kuiter (2001). "Revision of the Australian seahorses of the genus Hippocampus (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) with descriptions of nine new species". Records of the Australian Museum 53 (3): 293–340. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.53.2001.1350.


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