VulnerableShort-snouted Seahorse
Hippocampus hippocampus
27 countries31 parks70 dive sites
Species group · Bony fish
WAnimals has 2 species of seahorse, in the family Syngnathidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
2 species in this group are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 84 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It is the male, not the female, that carries the fertilised eggs in a specialised brood pouch.
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For all its slowness it is an extremely effective predator, with a strike success rate close to 90%.
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Hard data on this species is limited; many figures come from comparisons across the genus Hippocampus.
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It is the male that carries the young: the female deposits the eggs in his belly pouch with an ovipositor and he broods them and gives birth to fully formed offspring.
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Births tend to coincide with the full moon and also depend on the monsoon and the water temperature.
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It forms monogamous pairs through the breeding cycle, and the female may deposit a new clutch on the very day the previous brood is born.
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