Species profile—Hippocampus whitei (White's Seahorse)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) → Syngnathidae (pipefishes and seahorses) → Hippocampus whitei (White's Seahorse)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Family
- Syngnathidae (pipefishes and seahorses)
- Scientific name
- Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855
- Common name
- White's Seahorse
- Type reference
- Bleeker, P. (1855). Over eenige visschen van Van Diemensland. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen [Verh. Akad. Amsterdam] 2: 1-31.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 32188
- Synonym(s)
- Hippocampus procerus
- Alternate name(s)
- highcrown seahorse
Sydney seahorse
New Holland seahorse
common seahorse - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Endangered
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC) status
- Endangered
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
- Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT)
- Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM)
- Atlas of Living Australia
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=32188.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
