Shiho's seahorse or Sindo's Seahorse,
painted seahorse (''Hippocampus sindonis'') is a species of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...
in the family
Syngnathidae
The Syngnathidae is a family of fish which includes seahorses, pipefishes, and seadragons ('' Phycodurus'' and '' Phyllopteryx''). The name is derived from grc, σύν (), meaning "together", and (), meaning "jaw". The fused jaw is one of the ...
. It is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to the Pacific coastal waters of
Japan (from Wakayama pref. to Chiba pref.). This species reaches a length of ca. 8 cm.
''Hippocampus sindonis'' Jordan & Snyder, 1901
Fishbase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. It was listed by the IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ...
as Vulnerable in 1996 and Data Deficient in 2003, but was later reclassified as Least Concern.
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Fish of Japan
Hippocampus (genus)
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by John Otterbein Snyder
Fish described in 1901
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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