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The dwarf seahorse has a gestation period of 10–14 days and can live up to over 2 years in captivity. The water temperature in the aquarium must place between 20 and 28 °C (68 and 82 °F), with a pH ranging around 8–8.5. [12] The tank water must be renewed regularly, once, or twice a day. The survival rate of dwarf seahorses in captivity ...
Other small seahorses are sometimes called pygmy seahorses, but lack the single gill opening and trunk brooding that distinguish the true pygmy seahorse. They can be called dwarf seahorses: [5] Red Sea soft coral pygmy seahorse, Hippocampus debelius, endemic to the Red Sea; Bullneck seahorse, Hippocampus minotaur, from southeast Australia
A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus. The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek hippókampos ( ἱππόκαμπος ), itself from híppos ( ἵππος ) meaning "horse" and kámpos ( κάμπος ) meaning "sea monster" [ 4 ] [ 5 ] or "sea animal". [ 6 ]
Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered in 1969, little was known about the creatures. But in the early 2000s, British ...
Hippocampus bargibanti, also known as Bargibant's seahorse or the pygmy seahorse, is a seahorse of the family Syngnathidae found in the central Indo-Pacific area. [3]This pygmy seahorse is tiny—usually less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) in size—and lives exclusively on gorgonian sea-fans, as its coloration and physical features expertly mimic the coral for camouflage. [4]
Dwarf catshark: Scyliorhinus torrei: Dwarf frogfish: Antennarius pauciradiatus: Dwarf goatfish Upeneus parvus: Dwarf herring Jenkinsia lamprotaenia: Dwarf rainbowfish: Melanotaenia praecox: Dwarf round herring: Jenkinsia lamprotaenia: Dwarf scorpionfish Scorpaena elachys: Dwarf seahorse: Hippocampus zosterae: Dwarf wrasse: Doratonotus megalepis
Pygmy seahorses have a single gill opening on the back of the head (instead of two on the sides as in normal seahorses), and the males brood their young inside their trunk, instead of in a pouch on the tail. [11] A molecular phylogeny confirms that the pygmy seahorses are a monophyletic sister lineage of all other seahorses. [10]
Lined Seahorse: Hippocampus erectus: Caution: ST: Dark colored with lighter belly and white ridges. 19 cm (7.5 in) White's Seahorse: Hippocampus whitei: Caution: TM: Fuller bodied with a comparatively larger head. 13 cm (5.1 in) Dwarf Seahorse: Hippocampus zosterae: Caution: ST: Similar to H. reidi but much smaller. 5 cm (2.0 in) Thorny ...