Hippocampus patagonicus, Piacentino & Luzzatto 2004
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4146.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6090977 |
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H. patagonicus Piacentino & Luzzatto 2004 View in CoL
English common names. Patagonian Seahorse.
Synonyms. None
Distribution. Argentina, Brazil (south), Uruguay.
Holotype. MACN 8806. Paratypes: MACN 8807, 8808, 8809.
Type locality. Río Negro, San Antonio Oueste , Bahía, Argentina .
Notes. Molecular research amply supports the diagnosis of H. patagonicus as a species separate from H. erectus ( Casey et al. 2004; González et al. 2014; Silveira et al. 2014). It is 6.13% divergent from Brazilian H. erectus (648 bp, CO1, BOLD 2016) which in turn is 1.29% divergent from North American and Caribbean H. erectus .
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