Hippocampus alatus

Hippocampus alatus
Conservation status
	; Data Deficient (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Syngnathiformes
Family:	Syngnathidae
Genus:	Hippocampus
Species:	H. alatus
Binomial name
	Hippocampus alatus; Kuiter, 2001

The winged seahorse, Hippocampus alatus, is known to occur in Australia and Papua New Guinea but also suspected to occur in Indonesia and the Philippines but this has no yet been confirmed.^[2] In 2012, H. alatus was listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.^[1]

References

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^ Rudie H. Kuiter (2001). "Revision of the Australian seahorses of the genus Hippocampus (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) with descriptions of nine new species". Records of the Australian Museum. 53 (3): 293–340. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.53.2001.1350.

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[2] Rudie H. Kuiter (2001). "Revision of the Australian seahorses of the genus Hippocampus (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) with descriptions of nine new species". Records of the Australian Museum. 53 (3): 293–340. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.53.2001.1350.

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