A global revision of the Seahorses Hippocampus Rafinesque 1810 (Actinopterygii: Syngnathiformes): Taxonomy and biogeography with recommendations for further research
Author
Sara A. Lourie
Author
Riley A. Pollom
Author
Sarah J. Foster
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Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4146.1.1
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H. dahli
Ogilby 1908
English common name. Lowcrown Seahorse
.
Holotype
.
QM
I.788.
FIGURE 13.
Range map for
Hippocampus dahli
.
See Figure 2 caption for further details.
Type
locality.
Moreton Bay
,
Noosa
, southern
Queensland
,
Australia
.
Synonyms.
None.
Distribution.
Northern
and
Eastern
Australia
.
Notes.
Morphological data for the
type
specimen of
H. dahli
have been lost.
Specimens
from northeast
Australia
that are classified as
H. dahli
by
Kuiter
(2001)
are meristically indistinguishable from
H. trimaculatus
from elsewhere in their range (
Appendix D
), although they apparently lack the three spots characteristic of
H. trimaculatus
(data for
Lourie
et al.
1999
).
Genetic
data (648bp, CO1) from a single specimen identified as
H. dahli
(not publicly available) suggests a 4.86% divergence between this specimen and others from
India
to
Taiwan, Province of China
,
Indonesia
and the
Philippines
(
BOLD
2016
). Further investigation is warranted.