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Kineton Primary Shape Gang - Sea Horses

Sea Horses are a kind of fish. They swim upright.

The Common Sea Horse - Hippocampus hudsonius - is the Earth's slowest fish at 0.01 mph.

MALE Sea Horses incubate their eggs!! The female lays her eggs into the male's abdominal brood pouch where they are fertilized, and he gives birth to live young within two or three weeks. Between 50 and 1,600 seahorse babies develop inside the male's pouch.

If a sea horse wants to stay in one place, it curls its tail around a sea plant.

Baby seahorses are called fry; fry vary in size at birth from 8 mm to 18 mm, depending on the species, but they already look like real seahorses.

Instantly they curiously explore their new habitat.

If you look very carefully you can see Gemma Moon pointing at a 'white cloud'. These are all the sea horse babies being born!!

Seahorses belong to the family Sygnathidae (pronounced sing-nath-I-dee) from the Greek words syn meaning together and gnathus meaning jaws or snout.
All seahorses are fully marine species, although they tolerate vast salinity ranges and survive in some estuaries.
Seahorses are usually found in shallow, coastal tropical and temperate waters. However, some species are found in water as deep as 60 meters. They vary in adult size from 2 cm to 30 cm (approx).
Seahorses are a fish, being a member of the Teleosts (bony fish group). They have a skeleton made up of bony plates, they use gills to breathe, and have an inflatable bladder to help regulate their buoyancy in the water.
There are 50 species of seahorse currently recognized. They have many predators and only a few forms of defence, their main one being camouflage - colour changes to blend in with their environment. The other is immobility, their ability to remain motionless while their predators swim past.

Seahorses propel themselves by a dorsal fin located on their back. There are also two pectoral fins (which look like “ears”), which help them to manoeuvre.
The seahorse’s tail can grasp, and is used to “hitch” to coral and grasses. It is important for seahorses to have “hitching” posts so they do not get exhausted spending the whole day swimming.

coronet: is nearly as distinctive as a human thumbprint

Seahorses have no teeth and suck their food, which is small crustaceans or zooplankton, whole through their snout. Food sources must be sized according to snout size. Each day a seahorse can consume up to 3,000 brine shrimp

Sea Dragons Phycodurus eques

The Leafy Sea-dragon is a member of the Sea Horse family. They have the characteristic head, body shape and solid hide of sea horses but that is where the similarity ends. The Leafy Sea-dragon grows to lengths of 45cm and has leaf-like appendages on the head and body

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