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Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810

159445  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159445)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Perry, G. (1810). Ichthyology. <em>In: Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects... London.</em> 384 pp., 84 pls. v. 1: unnum. pp., unnum. pls. [Ichthyology on unnumbered pp. 83-84, 1 pl.]. [details] 
Distribution Nova Scotia (rare), southward to Bermuda, the Bahamas, shores of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Lesser Antilles,...  
Distribution Nova Scotia (rare), southward to Bermuda, the Bahamas, shores of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean coast of Panama, and Columbia, and the Atlantic coast of South America to Uruguay. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159445 on 2024-11-22
Date
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2005-05-30 07:43:33Z
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2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description Perry, G. (1810). Ichthyology. <em>In: Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects... London.</em> 384 pp., 84 pls. v. 1: unnum. pp., unnum. pls. [Ichthyology on unnumbered pp. 83-84, 1 pl.]. [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details] 

basis of record Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details] 

additional source McEachran, J. D. (2009). Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2024). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

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] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Feeds by sucking in small organisms, using its long face as a pipette [details]

Distribution Nova Scotia (rare), southward to Bermuda, the Bahamas, shores of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Haiti, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean coast of Panama, and Columbia, and the Atlantic coast of South America to Uruguay. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Habitat Generally in coastal waters; often around man-made structures.  [details]

Importance Social- Commercial, fishery, aquarium  [details]
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