Hippocampus comes, Cantor 1849

Sara A. Lourie, Riley A. Pollom & Sarah J. Foster, 2016, A global revision of the Seahorses Hippocampus Rafinesque 1810 (Actinopterygii: Syngnathiformes): Taxonomy and biogeography with recommendations for further research, Zootaxa 4146 (1), pp. 1-66 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4146.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6090930
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scientific name	Hippocampus comes
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H. comes Cantor 1849 View in CoL

English common names. Tiger-tail Seahorse, tiger-tailed seahorse. Holotype. BMNH 1982.6.17.9 [ex 1860.3.19.532].

Type locality. Penang, Malaysia.

Synonyms. None.

Distribution. India (Andaman Islands), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam.

Notes. BOLD (2016) data suggest that H. comes is most closely related to H. angustus and H. subelongatus from Shark Bay , Western Australia, with a divergence of 2.73%.