Short-snouted seahorse

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Short-Snouted seahorse
Conservation status
Data Deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Gasterosteiformes Family: Syngnathidae Genus: Hippocampus Species: H. hippocamus
Binomial name
Hippocampus Hippocampus Linnaeus, 1758

The short-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus hippocampus, is a species of fish in the Syngnathidae family. It is endemic to the Mediterranean and parts of the North Atlantic, particularly around Italy and the Canary Islands. Colonies of the species have recently been discovered in the River Thames around London and Southend-on-Sea.^[1]

Their preferred habitat is shallow muddy waters, estuaries or seagrass beds.^[1]

The Snout of the seahorse looks surprisingly simmilar to a common butloop's, the only problem with the snout, is that it often gets caught in the teeth of whales and other large mamals which is also the problem of the common butloop.

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