Hippocampus pontohi Lourie & Kuiter 2008

H. pontohi Lourie & Kuiter 2008 English common name. Pontoh’s Pygmy Seahorse Synonyms. H. severnsi Lourie and Kuiter 2008. Distribution. Indonesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, USA (Northern Mariana Islands). Holtoype: MZB 13593. Paratypes: MZB 13596, 13597. Type locality. Bunaken, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Notes. H. severnsi is considered a synonym based on the fact that its original description (Lourie & Kuiter 2008) does not include distinct morphological characters (colour only) (Appendix L). Recent genetic analyses confirm this synonymy (H. Hamilton, in litt. to SL and RP, 13 Feb 2015).

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 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4146.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/268078

Keywords

Hippocampus pontohi, Actinopterygii, Animalia, Biodiversity, Syngnathidae, Chordata, Syngnathiformes, Hippocampus, Taxonomy

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