Short-snouted seahorse
Hippocampus hippocampus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Hippocampus hippocampus
- Class
- Teleost
- Order
- Gasterosteoidei
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Size
- Tiny (under 10 cm)
- Active
- By day
- Continent
- Europe, Africa
- Habitat
- Ocean
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- The male carries the eggs in a belly pouch and gives birth to the young.
- A seahorse has no stomach, so it must feed almost all day on tiny shrimp and plankton.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q302969 · All animals · All entries