Long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus)

Query: Spiny seahorse

Result: 6^th of 8

Subject:	Long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Hippocampus guttulatus
Date between 1700 and 1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Iconographia Zoologica
Old Latin name Hippocampus guttulatus
New Latin name Hippocampus guttulatus
Common name Nederlands: Langsnuitzeepaardje
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippocampus_guttulatus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ14500043.tif

Hippocampus guttulatus, commonly known as the long-snouted seahorse and in Great Britain as the spiny seahorses, is a marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae, native from the northeast Atlantic, including the Mediterranean. The long-snouted seahorse is a small-sized fish of which average size is more or less 12 cm.

Order: Syngnathiformes
Family: Syngnathidae
Genus: Hippocampus
Species: Hippocampus guttulatus (G. Cuvier, 1829)
Synonyms
- Hippocampus longirostris Schinz, 1822
- Hippocampus ramulosus Leach, 1814
- Hippocampus bicuspis Kaup, 1856
- Hippocampus filamentosus Duméril, 1870

Spiny seahorse
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