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What is the scientific name for a sea horse?
Hippocampus fuscus
What is the phylum name of hippocampus?
Hippocampus, the seahorses, belong to the phylum Chrodata.
What is a seahorse classifiled as?
Seahorses compose the fish genus Hippocampus
Are seahorse mammales?
No they are fish, of the family Hippocampus
How did Hippocampus abdominalis get its name?
Hippocampus abdominalis got its' name from its' most distinct feature that separates it from other seahorses. Hippocampus abdominalis' distinct feature is its' very large protruding belly.
In addition to being the genus of seahorses the hippocampus is also the name of part of your body where is it?
brain
What is seahorses real name?
Seahorse is the general name given to 54 species in the genus Hippocampus.
What aquatic creature is the hippocampus?
The Hippocampus is the genus name for seahorses. It is also the name of a mythological creature with the upper half of a horse and the lower half of a fish or dolphin. The hippocampus region of the brain was named due to its resemblance to a sea-horse.
What is the taxonomy of a seahorse?
There are 30 species of seahorses, all in the genus Hippocampus Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Actinopterygii Order Syngnathiformes Family Syngnathidae Genus Hippocampus
Are seahorses fish or crustaceans?
A seahorse is a fish. There are 54 species of these small marine fishes in the genus Hippocampus.
What is the scientific names for sea hores?
Seahorse is the title given to forty-seven species of marine fish in the genus Hippocampus. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster".
Scientific name of seahorse?
There are 32 species of seahorses known and here thery are:Big Belly Seahorse- hippocampus abdominalisWest Africa Seahorse- hippocampus algiricusNarrow Bellied Seahorse- hippocampus angustusBarbour's Seahorse- hippocampus barbouriPygmy Seahorse- hippocampus bargibantiReunion Seahorse- hippocampus borbonensisShort Headed Seahorse- hippocampus camelopardalisKnysna Seahorse- hippocampus capensisTiger Tail Seahorse- hippocampus comesCrowned Seahorse- hippocampus coronatusLined Seahorse- hippocampus erectusFisher's Seahorse- hippocampus fisheriSea Pony- hippocampus fuscusLong Snouted Seahorse- hippocampus guttulatusShort Snouted Seahorse- hippocampus hippocampusThorny Seahorse- hippocampus histrixGiant Seahorse- hippocampus ingensJayakar's Seahorse- hippocampus jayakariGreat Seahorse- hippocampus kelloggiSpotted Seahorse- hippocampus kudaLichtenstein's Seahorse- hippocmapus lichentensteiniiBullneck Seahorse- hippocampus minotaurJapanese Seahorse- hippocampus mohnikeiSlender Seahorse- hippocampus reidiDhiho's Seahorse- hippocampus sindonisHedge Hog Seahorse- hippocampus spinosissimusWest Austrailian Seahorse- hippocampus subelongatusLongnose Seahorse- hippocampus trimaculatusWhite's Seahorse- hippocampus whiteiZebra Seahorse- hippocampus zebraDwarf Seahorse- hippocampus zosteraeSeahorses are marine fish belonging to the genus Hippocampus of the family Syngnathidae, which also includes pipefish. They are found in temperate and tropical waters all over the world.Seahorses range in size from 16 mm (the recently discovered Hippocampus denise[2]) to 35 cm. Seahorses and pipefishes are notable for being the only species in which males become "pregnant".[3]The seahorse is a true fish, with a dorsal fin located on the lower body and pectoral fins located on the head near their gills. Some species of seahorse are partly transparent and are rarely seen in pictures.Seahorse populations have been endangered in recent years by overfishing. The seahorse is used in traditional Chinese herbology, and as many as 20 million seahorses may be caught each year and sold for this purpose.[4]Import and export of seahorses has been controlled under CITES since May 15, 2004.Sea dragons are close relatives of seahorses but have bigger bodies and leaf-like appendages which enable them to hide among floating seaweed or kelp beds. Seahorses and sea dragons feed on larval fishes and amphipods, such as small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids ("sea lice"), sucking up their prey with their small mouths. Many of these amphipods feed on red algae that thrives in the shade of the kelp forests where the sea dragons live.ReproductionSeahorses reproduce in an unusual way: the male becomes pregnant. Most seahorse species' pregnancies lasts approximately two to three weeks.Hatched offspring are independent of their parents. Some spend time developing among the ocean plankton. At times, the male seahorse may try to consume some of the previously released offspring. Other species (H. zosterae) immediately begin life as sea-floor inhabitants (benthos).Seahorses are generally monogamous, though several species (H. abdominalis among them) are highly gregarious. In monogamous pairs, the male and female will greet one another with courtship displays in the morning and sometimes in the evening to reinforce their pair bond. They spend the rest of the day separate from each other hunting for food.As petsWhile many aquarium hobbyists keep seahorses as pets, seahorses collected from the wild tend to fare poorly in a home aquarium. They will eat only live foods such as brine shrimp and are prone to stress in an aquarium, which lowers the efficiency of their immune systems and makes them susceptible to disease.In recent years, however, captive breeding of seahorses has become increasingly widespread. These seahorses survive better in captivity, and they are less likely to carry diseases. These seahorses will accept frozen foods such as mysid shrimp, and they do not experience the shock and stress of being taken out of the wild and placed in a small aquarium. Although captive-bred seahorses are more expensive, they survive better than wild seahorses, and take no toll on wild populations.Seahorses should be kept in an aquarium to themselves, or with compatible tank-mates. Seahorses are slow feeders, and in an aquarium with fast, aggressive feeders, the seahorses will be edged out in the competition for food. Special care should be given to ensure that all individuals obtain enough food at feeding times.Seahorses can co-exist with many species of shrimp and other bottom-feeding creatures. Fish from the goby family also make good tank-mates. Some species are especially dangerous to the slow-moving seahorses and should be avoided completely: eels, tangs, triggerfish, squid, octopus, and sea anemones.Animals sold as "freshwater seahorses" are usually the closely related pipefish, of which a few species live in the lower reaches of rivers. The supposed true "freshwater seahorse" called Hippocampus aimei was not a real species, but a name sometimes used for individuals of Barbour's seahorse and Hedgehog seahorse. The latter is a species commonly found in brackish waters, but not actually a freshwater fish.Other adaptationsA seahorse has highly mobile eyes to watch for predators and prey without moving its body. Like the leafy sea dragon, it also has a long snout with which it sucks up its prey. Its fins are small because it must move through thick water vegetation. The seahorse has a long, prehensile tail which it will curl around any support such as seaweed to prevent being swept away by currentshoped i helped
