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First distributional record of the giraffe seahorse, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Hippocampus camelopardalis</i> Bianconi 1854 (Family: Syngnathidae) from Gulf of Kachchh waters, North west coast of India.

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Title First distributional record of the giraffe seahorse, Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi 1854 (Family: Syngnathidae) from Gulf of Kachchh waters, North west coast of India.
 
Creator Subburaman, S.
Murugan, A.
Goutham, S.
Kaul, Rahul
Jothi, P.V.R. Prem
Balasubramanian, T.
 
Subject Seahorse
Sea
Ss
Reef
Gulf of Kachchh
Fs
 
Description 408-411
Hippocampus
camelopardalis was described based on the
occurrence of a single specimen obtained from Mithapur reef region from the
Gulf of Kachchh Marine National Park region, Gujarat.
The discovery of this seahorse is considered as new record based on the review
of earlier literature from Indian waters. The observed species is currently
reported to occur from South African waters and present study infers its
distributional range to Arabian Sea (Indian
west coast). The observed specimen shows similarity to other seahorse species
like H.trimaculatus and H.whitei based on the occurrence of
three spots on its body and snout length respectively.
 
Date 2014-03-06T07:01:42Z
2014-03-06T07:01:42Z
2014-03
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/27331
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.43(3) [March 2014]