HWT-FISH-0419

Sea pony

Hippocampus fuscus

Rüppell, 1838

Hippocampus fuscus
© أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة

Species SYNGNATHIDAE Fish Name used in this encyclopedia

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

No local name is recorded for it in a Saudi scope either.

Measurements and characters

Specimen total length total length (TL)

— not recorded in the source

Length of a measured specimen, not the maximum length of the species.

The source does not record a total length for this group.

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Documentation status

listed — the source does not measure this group

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Names

English common names

Sea pony

Classification

HippocampusGenus SYNGNATHIDAEFamily SyngnathiformesOrder ActinopterygiiClass ChordataPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Others in this family

Taxa of the same family. That is a taxonomic relationship, not a statement of resemblance; the encyclopedia holds no diagnostic characters or lookalike relations yet.

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Scientific sources

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Record last modified: 2026-09-12