Hippocampus
Hippocampus (Graece hippos 'equus' + kampos 'monstrum') est genus piscum subfamiliae Hippocampinarum familiae Syngnathidarum ordinis Syngnathiformium. Familia subfamiliam Syngnathinas quoque comprehendit. 

Sunt circa quadraginta hippocamporum species, praecipue in tropicis temperatisque maribus humilibus per orbem terrarum endemicae. Se in tutelam herbarum marinarum, scopulorum curalii, et mangalium recipiunt. Coloniae in aquis Europaeis sicut Aestuarium Thamesis inveniuntur.

Taxinomia 
 Genus Hippocampus
 Hippocampus abdominalis Lesson, 1827 (Nova Zelandia et Australia australis et orientalis)
 Hippocampus alatus Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus algiricus Kaup, 1856
 Hippocampus angustus Günther, 1870
 Hippocampus barbouri Jordan & Richardson, 1908
 Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970 (Oceanus Pacificus occidentalis: Indonesia, Philippinae, Papua Nova Guinea, Insulae Salomonis, etc)
 Hippocampus biocellatus Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus borboniensis Duméril, 1870
 Hippocampus breviceps Peters, 1869 (Australia australis et orientalis)
 Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854
 Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900
 Hippocampus colemani Kuiter, 2003
 Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1850
 Hippocampus coronatus Temminck & Schlegel, 1850
 Hippocampus denise Lourie & Randall, 2003
 Hippocampus erectus Perry, 1810 (Americarum  litus orientale, inter Novam Scotiam et Uruguaiam)
 Hippocampus fisheri Jordan & Evermann, 1903
 Hippocampus fuscus Rüppell, 1838 (Oceanus Indicus)
 Hippocampus grandiceps Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829
 Hippocampus hendriki Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus hippocampus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mare Mediterraneum et Oceanus Atlanticus)
 Hippocampus histrix Kaup, 1856 (Oceanus Indicus, Sinus Persicus, Mare Rubrum, et Oriens Remotus)
 Hippocampus ingens Girard, 1858 (Litus Pacifum Americae Septentrionalis, Mediae, Australis)
 Hippocampus jayakari Boulenger, 1900
 Hippocampus jugumus Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus kelloggi Jordan & Snyder, 1901
 Hippocampus kuda Bleeker, 1852
 Hippocampus lichtensteinii Kaup, 1856
 Hippocampus minotaur Gomon, 1997
 Hippocampus mohnikei Bleeker, 1854
 Hippocampus montebelloensis Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus multispinus Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus pontohi Lourie and Kuiter, 2008
 Hippocampus procerus Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus queenslandicus Horne, 2001
 Hippocampus reidi Ginsburg, 1933 (scopuli curalii Maris Caribici)
 Hippocampus satomiae Lourie and Kuiter, 2008
 Hippocampus semispinosus Kuiter, 2001
 Hippocampus severnsi Lourie and Kuiter, 2008
 Hippocampus sindonis Jordan & Snyder, 1901
 Hippocampus spinosissimus Weber, 1913
 Hippocampus subelongatus Castelnau, 1873
 Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach, 1814
 Hippocampus whitei Bleeker, 1855 (east Australia)
 Hippocampus zebra Whitley, 1964
 Hippocampus zosterae Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 (Sinus Mexici et Mare Caribbicum)

Hippocampus (mythologia)

Notae

Bibliographia
 Lourie, Sara A., Amanda C. J. Vincent, et Heather J. Hall. 1999. Seahorses: An Identification Guide to the World's Species and their Conversation. London: Project Seahorse.
 Sparks, John. 1999. Battle of the Sexes: The Natural History of Sex. Londini: BBC Books.
 Teske P. R., H. Hamilton, C. A. Matthee, et N. P. Barker. 2007. "Signatures of seaway closures and founder dispersal in the phylogeny of a circumglobally distributed seahorse lineage." BMC Evolutionary Biology 7:138. BiomedCentral.com
 Vincent, Amanda C. J., et Laila M. Sadler. 1995. "Faithful pair bonds in wild seahorse, Hippocampus whitei." Animal Behaviour 50:1557-1569.
 Vincent, Amanda, C. J. 1995."A role for daily greetings in maintaining seahorse pair bonds." Animal Behaviour 49:258-260.
 Vincent, Amanda C. J. 1990. "A seahorse father makes a good mother." Natural History 12:34-43.
 Vincent, Amanda C. J., et Rosie Woodroffe. 1994. "Mothers little helpers: patterns of male care in mammals." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:294-297.

Nexus externi 

 ARKive—Imagines et pelliculae de Hippocampo bargibanti
 Arnes.si, Hippocampi fossiles ex Collibus Tunjice (Slovenia)* DiveGallery.com, photographemata hippocamporum
 FusedJaw.com, de hippocampis
 ProjectSeahorse.org, Grex pro investigatione et conservatione
 QataVisitor.com Hippocampi in Qatar
 RobertoSozzani.it, Hippocampus denise Pinacotheca hippocampi nani
 RobertoSozzani.it, Pontohi hippocampus nanus
 RobertoSozzani.it, Walea Hippocampus nanus
 Seahorse.org, Aquarium Hobby
 Vimeo.com, Pellicula nonnullorum hippocamporum apud Monterey Bay Aquarium

Animalia dilecta
Animalia quae coloribus commutari possunt
Hippocampus
Syngnathidae
Taxa Rafinesque
Taxa 1810