Hippocampus whitei

Called wither White's, Sydney, or the New Holland seahorse, this creature's identification is credited to Bleeker in 1855, though the details of that situation are unknown to this author currently. The White's seahorse is said to be important to the residents of Manly, NSW, Australia due to a reintroduction program involving them clinging to fish netshttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Poseidon_s_Steed/4Wifibfq2rMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT130&printsec=frontcover. However the truth of that is not known to me, either. Some sources listed them as ranging from while others from Bundaberg, Australia, to Sydneyhttps://projectseahorse.org/resource/home-range-behaviour-of-the-monogamous-australian-seahorse-hippocampus-whitei/https://projectseahorse.org/resource/a-holistic-investigation-of-the-ecological-correlates-of-abundance-and-body-size-for-the-endangered-whites-seahorse-hippocampus-whitei/; while others bring it westward from Bundaberg to Tiwi Island insteadhttps://fishbase.se/summary/Hippocampus-whitei.htmlhttps://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10088/46721312. Still others place them in Manly Bay or living as north as the Soloman Islandshttps://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/102838-Hippocampus-whitei. They seem to live in seagrass beds.
They are listed as endangered by the IUCN.
Category:Seahorses