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Seahorses range in size from 1.5 to 35 cm (0.6 to 13.8 in). [13] They are named for their equine appearance, with bent necks and long snouted heads and a distinctive trunk and tail. Although they are bony fish, they do not have scales, but rather thin skin stretched over a series of bony plates, which are arranged in rings throughout their bodies.
They will use their tails to anchor themselves to stems of plants and are able to camouflage very well. [ 11 ] The short-snouted seahorse is found in the northeastern Atlantic, from northwestern Scotland [ 12 ] and the Netherlands south to Senegal and into the Mediterranean Sea as well as in the coastal waters of the Azores , Madeira , and the ...
Like other seahorses, the dwarf seahorse has a head angled at right angles to its body and swims upright using its dorsal fin to propel it and its pectoral fins to steer. It grows to an average length of 2 and 2.5 cm (0.8 and 1.0 in), with a maximum length of 5.0 cm (2.0 in).
Adult seahorses eat 30 to 50 times a day if food is available; due to their slow consumption they must feed constantly to survive. [20] Big-belly seahorses do not have a stomach or teeth, so they feed by sucking small invertebrates in through their bony tubular snouts with a flick of their head. Their snouts can expand if the prey is larger ...
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]
While walking on the beach, you’ll probably run across a sea creature on the shore. Jellyfish, starfish, sand dollars and the occasional octopus wash up on South Carolina beaches all year round.
To achieve this, male seahorses protect eggs in a specialized brood pouch, male sea dragons attach their eggs to a specific area on their bodies, and male pipefish of different species may do either. When a female's eggs reach maturity, she squirts them from a chamber in her trunk via her ovipositor into his brood pouch or egg pouch, sometimes ...
A Project Seahorse Researcher studying a seahorse underwater. By working to protect seahorses, Project Seahorse supports marine conservation more broadly.These fish are affected by similar environmental and over-fishing pressures as all marine organisms, and benefit from similar conservation measures.