Hippocampus occurs as genus of fish known as Seahorses (family Syngnathidae). It is witnessed within moderate & tropical waters all across the world.

Seahorses home in size from either Xvi millimetre (a recently found Hippocampus denise [http://www.projectseahorse.org/denise.html]) to 35 cm. It is notable for existence one of single two or three species where the males become pregnant. The seahorse gestation lives more or less 2 to 3 weeks. Seahorses come as well unusual among fishes for existence monogamous.

Seahorse populations keep close at hand been endangered in recent years by overfishing. A seahorse is utilized around traditional Chinese herbology, & when several when 20 million seahorses can be caught for each one month and sold for this purpose ([http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/seahorse/vincent.html]).

Seahorses reproduce inside an unusual way: a male becomes pregnant. A coupling pair entwine their tails & a female aligns an extended tube known as ovipositor with the male's pouch. A eggs move through a tube into the male's pouch in which he so fertilises the babies. A embryos might have for between 10 years & vi weeks, based in metal money & a water system conditions. After a male gives birth he pumps his tail assembly until a binky user seahorses emerge.

Though close relatives of seahorses, sea dragons have bigger bodies & leaf-leaflike appendages which enable the babies to hide among swimming seaweed or kelp beds. Sea dragons feed in larval fishes & amphipods, such as little shrimp-rather crustaceans known as mysids ("sea lice"), sucking up their prey sustaining their little mouths. Numerous one amphipods feed in red algae that thrives in the shade of the kelp forests where a sea dragons survive.

Import & exportation of seahorses is controlled under CITES since May 15, 2004.

Species

There are some 35 known metal money of seahorse including: Hippocampus abdominalis : (Large-stomach seahorse) which is detected off a coast of New Zealand and south and east Australia Hippocampus algiricus : (West African Seahorse) Hippocampus angustus: (Narrow Bellied Seahorse) Hippocampus barbouri : ('''Barbour's seahorse or Zebra-snout seahorse') Hippocampus bargibanti (Pygmy Seahorse) which is witnessed in the West Pacific region (Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Salomon Islands, etc.) Hippocampus borboniensis : (Réunion Seahorse) Hippocampus breviceps: (Short Snouted Seahorse) which is encountered off a coast of south & east Australia Hippocampus camelopardalis: (Giraffe Seahorse) Hippocampus capensis: (Knysna Seahorse) Hippocampus colemani: ('Coleman's Seahorse') Hippocampus comes: (Tiger Hind end Seahorse) which is obtained in the Far East Hippocampus coronatus: (Crowned Seahorse) Hippocampus denise: ('Denise's Seahorse') Hippocampus erectus: (Lined Seahorse) which is noticed off a east coast of the Americas, between Nova Scotia and Uruguay Hippocampus fisheri: ('Fisher's Seahorse') Hippocampus fuscus: (Sea Pony) which is discovered in the Indian Ocean Hippocampus guttulatus: (Speckled Seahorse) Hippocampus hippocampus: (European Seahorse) which is incurred in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean Hippocampus histrix: (Thorny Seahorse) which is observed in the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and a Far East Hippocampus ingens: (Pacific Seahorse) which is observed off a Pacific coast coast of North, Telephone exchange & South Us) Hippocampus jayakari: ('Jayakar's Seahorse') Hippocampus kelloggi: (Smashing Seahorse) Hippocampus kuda: (Spotted Seahorse) Hippocampus lichtensteinii: ('Lichtenstein's Seahorse') Hippocampus minotaur: (Bullneck Seahorse) Hippocampus mohnikei: (Japanese Seahorse) Hippocampus procerus: (Hippocampus procerus) Hippocampus reidi: (Brazilian Seahorse) which is noticed in the Caribbean in coral reefs Hippocampus sindonis: ('Shiho's seahorse') Hippocampus spinosissimus: (Hedgehog Seahorse) Hippocampus subelongatus: (Tigersnout Seahorse or West Australian Seahorse) Hippocampus trimaculatus: (3-Spot Seahorse) Hippocampus tuberculatus: (Knobby Seahorse) Hippocampus whitei: ('Whiten's Seahorse') which is discovered off a coast of east Australia Hippocampus zebra: (Zebra Seahorse) Hippocampus zosterae'': (Dwarf Seahorse) which is encountered in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean)