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Giant Seahorse

hippocampus ingens

The Giant Seahorse is a fascinating underwater creature that looks like it’s wearing a suit of armor! With its unique shape and curled tail, it loves to swim among the seaweed and corals.

Hábitat: Giant Seahorses live in shallow coastal waters, often hiding among seagrass and coral reefs.

Aspecto

The Giant Seahorse has a distinctive horse-like head and an upright posture, with a long, prehensile tail. Its body can range from mottled brown and green to bright yellow, often adorned with skin filaments that help it blend seamlessly with its environment.

ReinoAnimaliaFiloChordataClaseActinopterygiiOrdenSyngnathiformesFamiliaSyngnathidaeGéneroHippocampus
Giant Seahorse
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Giant Seahorse

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Datos interesantes

Despite being fish, they have no scales, instead sporting bony plates under their skin!

Seahorses don't have a stomach, so they need to eat almost constantly to survive!

Their eyes can move independently, looking forward and backward at the same time!

They are the only fish that swim upright, not horizontally like other fish!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Stealthy Shape-Shifter

Giant Seahorse can change its skin color and grow skin filaments to blend perfectly with its surroundings, helping them hide from predators and prey.

Habilidad

Anchoring Anchor

Giant Seahorse has a strong, curly tail that helps them grasp onto seaweed or coral, stopping them from drifting away in strong currents.

Habilidad

Daddy Daycare

Giant Seahorse males have a special abdominal pouch where they carry and protect their developing babies until they are ready to hatch.

Medidas y detalles

Longitud
15-30 cm
Peso
0.05-0.15 kg
Esperanza de vida
3-5 años
Velocidad de nado
0.02 km/h
Profundidad máxima
40 m
Tipo de agua
Agua salada

Dieta y alimentación

These tiny hunters slurp up small crustaceans and plankton with their long snouts!

Alimentos principales

  • copepods
  • amphipods
  • brine shrimp
  • mysid shrimp

Método de búsqueda

  • Ambush

Conexiones ecológicas

shelters

Neptune Grass

Posidonia oceanica

Provides crucial habitat

eaten by

Copepod

Acartia tonsa

Primary food source

eaten by

Tincawrasse

Symphodus tinca

Predator of juveniles

eaten by

Ornate Wrasse

Thalassoma pavo

Preys on young

Rasgos

También conocido como

Hippocampus

Colecciones

Seguridad

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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el longitud de Giant Seahorse?

15-30 cm

¿Cuál es el peso de Giant Seahorse?

0.05-0.15 kg

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de Giant Seahorse?

3-5 años

¿Qué come Giant Seahorse?

These tiny hunters slurp up small crustaceans and plankton with their long snouts!

¿Cuál es el velocidad de nado de Giant Seahorse?

0.02 km/h

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Giant Seahorse?

Giant Seahorses live in shallow coastal waters, often hiding among seagrass and coral reefs.

¿Cómo caza Giant Seahorse?

Ambush

¿Cuál es el profundidad máxima de Giant Seahorse?

40 m

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