H. comes Cantor 1849

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%.