What kind of animal is a seahorse and what kind of animal does a seahorse belong to?

Seahorse (sea horse) ichthyidae, sea lombidae, a general term for seahorse animals, belongs to the bony fish. The head is like a horse, the tail is like a monkey, the eyes are like a chameleon, and there is a nose, and the body is like an angular wood carving, this is the shape of a seahorse.

The seahorse is named because its head resembles a horse's head, but it is interesting that it is a peculiar and precious small fish in the shallow sea of the near land, belonging to the sea locidae Hippocampus has a flat head, with 2 nostrils on each side of the head, the head is at right angles to the trunk, the chest and abdomen are protruding, composed of 10 12 bone rings, the body is generally about 10cm long, the tail is slender, with four edges, often curled, the whole body is completely wrapped by membranous bone sheets, with a spinless dorsal fin, no pelvic fin and caudal fin. The male hippocampus has a nursery sac on the ventral surface, in which the eggs are laid for hatching, and can reproduce for 2-3 generations a year. Captive breeding of seahorses has been successful.

Seahorse is a kind of precious traditional Chinese medicine with high economic value, which has medicinal functions such as strengthening the body, tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, relaxing tendons and activating the nerves, reducing inflammation and relieving pain, calming the nerves, relieving cough and asthma, especially for diseases of the nervous system. In addition to being mainly used to make various synthetic drugs, seahorses can also be directly taken to strengthen the body and treat diseases. Gasterosteiformes, a general term for several small fish species in the warm sea.

The body is encased in an armor formed by a ring of bones, the tail is bent forward and can be curled, the head is in the shape of a horse's head and forms a horn with the body, the snout is long and tube-shaped, and the mouth is small. One dorsal fin, all composed of fin bars. The eyes can move independently.

They are of various sizes and are about 4 30 cm (in) long. Poor swimmer, generally living in coastal zones, among seaweed or other aquatic plants, with their tails wrapped around them. Swim upright and rise or sink by propelling each fin and changing the air content in the swim bladder.

Feeds on small creatures that are quickly inhaled by mouth. The male carries the fertilized eggs, which the female lays in a nursery pouch at the tail of the male until hatching. When the juveniles hatch, the male twists his body and releases the larvae through the only opening in the brooding sac.

Seahorses are rare aquarium ornamental animals. Species include small seahorses (hippocampus zosterae) native to the Atlantic, which are smaller than other species; Brown seahorse (H. Brown) in EuropeRamulosus or H

guttulatus)；Pacific-born seahorse (h.) kuda)；Australia's medium-sized white seahorse (h whitei)。

The genus Hippocampus is a class of radial-finned fish belonging to the family Hydrosauridae.

The hippocampus (Latin scientific name: hippocampus) is a small marine animal with a length of 5 30 cm. It is named because the head is bent and the body is close to a right angle, the head is in the shape of a horse's head and forms an angle with the body, the snout is long and tube-shaped, the mouth is small, and the dorsal fin is one, all of which are composed of fin bars.

The eyes can move independently.

Seahorses are slow to move, but they are highly effective at catching fast-moving, hiding-minded copepods in the Atlantic, Europe, Pacific, and Australia.

Habitat of seahorses

In the natural sea, seahorses usually prefer to live in the slow flow of coral reefs, because they are not good at swimming, so they often use their tail to tightly outline the branches of corals and the leaves of seaweed, so as not to be swept away by the rapids.

Most species of seahorses grow at the junction of estuaries and seas, so they can adapt to areas of varying concentrations of seawater and survive even in freshwater. Seahorses and seahorses have small mouths and are only good at foraging for live bait, and they are not good swimmers and cannot hunt quickly.

1. The seahorse is a marine creature and belongs to the fish. Although, from the outside, they don't look like fish, but in fact, seahorses are also creatures that belong to the class Ichthyidae, so it can be said that they are a type of fish.

2. Specifically, they belong to the family Nethonythidae and are small fish with a body length of between 5-30 cm. They live in tropical oceans and feed on some of the smaller animals in the water, mainly crustaceans.