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Pegasus
Pegasus is a genus of seamoths found in coastal tropical marine waters. The name was taken from the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology. This horse was created with Medusa´s blood. The member species are distributed in the Indo-West Pacific ocean waters around: Australia, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Tanzania and Thailand.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Slender Seamoth
speciesPegasus volitans
Sculptured Seamoth
speciesPegasus lancifer
Brick Seamoth
speciesPegasus laternarius
Chinese Seamoth
speciesPegasus sinensis
Mandarin Seamoth
speciesPegasus nanhaiensis
Short-spined Seamoth
speciesPegasus tetrabelos
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 90886.