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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]
This pygmy seahorse has a short snout, slender body with a prehensile tail. Its body is either completely smooth or provided with some polyp-like tubercles, in which case these are fewer and less developed than Hippocampus bargibanti. Its coloration ranges from yellow, more or less bright, to orange with often small dark spots and sometimes ...
Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970 (pygmy seahorse) Hippocampus breviceps Peters, 1869 (short-headed seahorse) Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854 (giraffe seahorse) Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900 (Knysna seahorse) Hippocampus casscsio Zhang, Qin, Wang & Lin, 2016 [65] (Beibu Bay seahorse) Hippocampus colemani Kuiter, 2003 ...
Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen since the mid-1950s, scientists say.
The lined seahorse was first named Hippocampus Erectus by George Perry in 1810. [5] "Hippocampus" translates into "horse or sea monster" in ancient Greek. [6] The lined seahorse is a diurnal species that ranges in length from 12 cm to 17 cm; the maximum length reported for the species is 19 cm.
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The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...