Common Seahorse 

Hippocampus kuda

The common seahorse scientifically named Hippocampus kuda lives throughout the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic, oceans. An example of a habitat is the salt marsh. The classification for the common seahorse is

domain Eukarya, kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, and class Actinopterygii. Its order is Syngnathiformes, its family is Syngnathidae, its genus is Hippocampus, and its species is Hippocampus kuda. The common seahorse has bilateral symmetry, it is ectothermic, and it is also heterotrophic. The common seahorse is very close to its partner and has an average length of about 12 centimeters. Three structural adaptation for the common seahorse is that it has a long narrow snout to help suck prey out of small spaces. It also has a very strong tail that helps it swim because seahorses are not very good swimmers. Lastly, most common seahorse are spotted so that helps them camouflage to hide from predators and sneak up on prey. An interesting fact about this organism is that the male seahorse carry the eggs instead of the female. Predators of a common seahorse are humans, loggerhead sea turtles, tunas, skates, rays, and crabs. Prey of the common seahorse is zooplankton, small crustaceans, and small larvae fish. I have had so much fun researching this organism.     

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