Seahorses range in size from 15 to 35.5 cm.
They have thin skin stretched over a series of bony plates which are arranged
in rings throughout their body, a flexible neck, a long snouts to suck up food,
and a coronet pn the head. They also swim upright and very poorly using a dorsal
fin and pectoral fins, different from other small fishes who swim horizontally.
They are resting with their prehensile tails wound around an object.
The Unique Things of Seahorse
The male seahorse is equipped with a pouch on
the ventral. When mating, the female seahorse lays eggs in the pouch. So the
male carries the eggs until the seahorse are released, not the female one.
After the seahorses are released into water, the male’s role is done and he
offers no further care and often mates again within hours or days during the
breeding season.
What I have learned from Seahorse
From the unique things of seahorse, we know
that not only the female or mother who is needed for keeping the baby before
birth. The male’s role is also needed in this situation, especially in life of
seahorse. Beside that, seahorses are being overcollected. We have to do some
preservation efforts for them. We mustn’t keep them in aquariums.
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