THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| belly pipefishHippichthys heptagonus Bleeker, 1849 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippichthys parvicarinatus (Dawson, 1978) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippichthys penicillus (Cantor, 1849) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bellybarred pipefishHippichthys spicifer (Rüppell, 1838) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| North Andean huemulHippocamelus antisensis (d'Orbigny, 1834) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chilean GuemalHippocamelus bisulcus (Molina, 1782) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus angustus Günther, 1870 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus barbouri Jordan & Richardson, 1908 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus breviceps Peters, 1869 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| giraffe seahorseHippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus casscsio Zhang, Qin, Wang & Lin, 2016 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus colemani Kuiter, 2003 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1849 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus coronatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus dahli Ogilby, 1908 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus debelius Gomon & Kuiter, 2009 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus denise Lourie & Randall, 2003 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| lined seahorseHippocampus erectus Perry, 1810 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus fisheri Jordan & Evermann, 1903 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| long-snouted seahorseHippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus haema Han, Kim, Kai & Senou, 2017 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| seahorseHippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| thorny seahorseHippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific seahorseHippocampus ingens Girard, 1858 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese pygmy seahorseHippocampus japapigu Short, Smith, Motomura, Harasti & Hamilton, 2018 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus jugumus Kuiter, 2001 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spotted seahorseHippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus minotaur Gomon, 1997 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese seahorseHippocampus mohnikei Bleeker, 1853 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus nalu Short, Claassens, Smith, De Brauwer, Hamilton, Stat & Harasti, 2020 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus paradoxus Foster & Gomon, 2010 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus patagonicus Piacentino & Luzzatto, 2004 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus planifrons Peters, 1877 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus pontohi Lourie & Kuiter, 2008 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus pusillus Fricke, 2004 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longsnout seahorseHippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus satomiae Lourie & Kuiter, 2008 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus sindonis Jordan & Snyder, 1901 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus spinosissimus Weber, 1913 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach, 1814 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus tyro Randall & Lourie, 2009 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus waleananus Gomon & Kuiter, 2009 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.