Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829

Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, Zootaxa 5654 (1), pp. 1-64 : 28

Hippocampus guttulatus Cuvier, 1829

A native marine species, formerly found along all Romanian Black Sea waters ( Bănărescu 1964); nowadays only along the southern waters and in the Portița area ( Abaza et al. 2005; Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007 [as H. hippocampus , but see own synonymy list and discussion in Iftime, 2023]; Țoțoiu et al. 2018; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Niță et al. 2022; Iftime 2023). Yankova et al. 2014 only list H. hippocampus for the Black Sea (including Romania); as the more common seahorse in the Black Sea is the long-snouted seahorse H. guttulatus , and given the rarity of H. hippocampus proper (the short-snouted seahorse) in the Black Sea and the frequent taxonomic confusions (see the discussion in Iftime 2023), the paper certainly means H. guttulatus by this.