Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Syngnathiformes > Family Syngnathidae > Subfamily Hippocampinae > Genus Hippocampus

Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hippocampus*	Rafinesque, 1810	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Syngnathus hippocampus*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: kali i detit turishkurtër sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Basque: itsas zaldi muturmotza

Breton: marc'h hegour; marc'h vor sources: Cabioch, L. (2008). Personal communication

Catalan: cavall de mar xato sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.

Danish: kortsnudet søhest sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: kortsnuitzeepaardje sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: seahorse; short-snouted seahorse sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37

French: cheval marin; hippocampe; hippocampe à museau court; hippocampe à nez court; hippocampe commum sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.;Quéro J.C., 1984 - Les poissons de mer des pêches françaises - J. Grancher ed, 394 p;TermCat, The Center for Terminology.

German: Seepferdchen sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Greek: Ιππόκαμπος sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Hebrew: סוסון-ים ים-תיכוני sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: cavalluccio marino sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: europinis jūrų arkliukas sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: cavalo-marinho

Romanian: căluţ de mare sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: длиннорылый европейский морской конек; Морской конек длиннорылый sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine

Slovenian: kratkonosi morski konjiček sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: caballito de mar común sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: deniz ati; deniz atı sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Морський коник; Морський коник довгорилий; Морський коник короткорилий

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374
additional source	Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Iftime, A. (2023). Is Hippocampus hippocampus (Osteichthyes, Syngnathiformes, Syngnathidae) a member of the Romanian ichthyological fauna?. Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”. 66(1): 179-184.
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK
FishBase
FishBase images (Hippocampus hippocampus, by Neto, G.)

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127380