LONGSNOUT SEAHORSE


CHARACTERISTICS
The colouring varies from red to intense yellow, it could be said they are chameleonic as they change colour according to the area, adapting to their environment in a short space of time. The males are more robust.
DIET
Small crustaceans.
REPRODUCTION
The females place their eggs inside the males. This incubates them and the male releases the young that have already hatched.
CURIOSITIES
It is the males who really give birth.
NAME
Longsnout Seahorse
HABITAT
Western Atlantic
SCIENTIFIC NAME
Hippocampus reidi
SPICE
Fish
DIET
Carnivorous