FIGURE 5. A in Morphological and molecular evidence for the occurrence of three Hippocampus species (Teleostei: Syngnathidae) in Brazil

FIGURE 5. A. Hippocampus erectus, male; B. Hippocampus reidi, female; from Figueiredo & Menezes (1980). C. Hippocampus patagonicus from Brazil, male 112 mm (Note: the dark diagonal streaks on the back of head and parallel streaks on the trunk and tail, and also the elongated dark spot at the top of the first dorsal fin rays described by Figueiredo & Menezes,1980 to H. erectus); D. H. patagonicus from Argentina, Holotype MACN 8808, kindly provided by Diego Luzzatto.