Hippocampus Collection

Long-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus guttulatus (Twig-bearing seahorse, Hippocampus ramulosus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Straight-nosed pipefish and seahorse
Straight-nosed pipefish, Nerophis ophidion, and short-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus hippocampus. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish

A Nereid (sea nymph) in mantle and bracelets riding on a sea monster or hippocampus, half horse and half fish. Museo Naz. XXII, Stabiae

Lined seahorse and tropical two-wing flying-fish
Lined seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, and tropical two-wing flying-fish, Exocoetus volitans. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire

Flying fish 1, suckerfish 2, barramundi 3
Flying fish, Exocoetus volitans 1, suckerfish, Remora remora 2, barramundi, Lates calcarifer 3, scale 4, seahorse, Hippocampus species 5

Teleostei or ray-finned fish: sea moth, Pegasus laternarius 1, short-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus hippocampus 2, leafy sea dragon, Phycodurus eques 3, Striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus 4

Unusual marine creatures
Sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, planehead filefish, Stephanolepis hispidus, elephantfish, Callorhinchus callorynchus, spotted wobbegong, Orectolobus maculatus, and seahorse, Hippocampus hippocampus

Fantasy Animals - Neptune
Hippocampi, beasts who were half horse, half fish, draw Neptunes chariot across the sea. Date: circa 1860

Three types of Pipefish and a Seahorse
Three types of Pipefish and a Short-Nosed Seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus). The Pipefish are: Snake Pipefish (Syngnathus ophidion or Entelurus aequoreus)

Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus. Wedding of Poseidon and Amphi
Roman Art. Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus or A?u?Statue Base of Marcus AntoniusA?u?, relief freize of a monumental statue group base

Various seahorse species by Marcus Bloch
Plate 109 - Naturgeschichte der auslõ«ñischen Fische : mit sechs und dreissig Ausgemalten kupfern nach originalen (1785-95) by Marcus Elieser Bloch

Altar of Domitius. Detail. Ca. 150 BC
Altar of Domitius. At the base is depicting the wedding of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Ca. 150 BC. Detail of the nuptial courtship with a Nereid on a hippocampus bringing a present and winged erotes

Italy. Rome. Fontana di Trevi. 18th century. Sea horse
Italy. Rome. Fontana di Trevi. 1732-1751. By Nicola Salvi (1697-1751) for order of Pope Clement XII. Depicts the kingdom of the seas. Statue of an sea horse by Pietro Bracci (1700-1773)

Baths of Neptune. Mosaic. Ostia Antica
Amphitrite on a hippocampus with Hymenaeus and Tritons. Detail. Mosaic at the Baths of Neptune. 2nd century. Ostia Antica. Italy

Sea horse, Hippocampus erectus, and flying fish, Exocoetus volitans.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

Seahorse, Hippocampus, and greater pipefish, Syngnathus acus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G

Various specimens
Specimen jars containing various sea and land creatures

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