Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley 1970

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 94

Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley 1970 —Bargibanti pygmy seahorse ( Fig. 37 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 10 Oct. 2007 and 23 Apr. 2010.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: eastern Indonesia east to Vanuatu, north to Sabah ( Malaysia), south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Associated with sea fans, 15–40 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 37. Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley 1970, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 23 Apr. 2010 (underwater photograph: Dietmar Amon).