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Wonderful Information on seahorse
Seahorses
Seahorses compose the fish genus Hippocampus, within the family Syngnathidae. There are 40 species of seahorses found in world spread over the shallow tropical and temperate water.They prefer to live in sheltered areas such as sea grass beds, mangroves or coral reefs.
Description of seahorses
Seahorses are known for their equine profile and can swim upright and they do not have scales. They do not have caudal fin, since they are poor swimmers. They can be found mostly resting and are lazy bones to even search for their food. In order to suck food, they have long snouts and eyes which can move independently of each other just like chameleon. A seahorse generally eats shrimp, tiny fish and plankton and forms seahorses food.
Seahorses classification
Classification: Kingdom: Animalia,
Phylum: Chordata,
Class: Osteichthyes,
Order: Gasterosteiformes,
Family: Syngnathidae,
Genus: Hippocampus, and many species.
Basic Anatomy
The crown of the seahorses is called coronet and is as unique and distinctive like a human thumbprint. The eyes of the seahorse are interesting as they are not in tandem with each other. The size of the seahorses can differ from quarter of an inch to a foot or more importantly depends on the species they belong to.
Seahorses food
You would be amazed by the fact that seahorses do not boast of any teeth and they swallow their food as a whole. They also make a distinctive or a bizarre and a loud clicking sound at the time of eating which can be heard from a distance away easily. Its jaws are long and hollow. Seahorses enjoy live food primarily. On an average, a young seahorse eats up to three thousand brine shrimp a day. The seahorses food menu includes diverse things like shrimps, chameleon shrimp, mysis shrimp, rockhoppers, rotifers, side swimmer, Mollie fry and guppy fry, respectively.
Seahorse lifespan
No one yet has a basic idea as to how longer the life span of an average seahorse is and how they differ from sea animals other than it in the sea.
Sea life is a different one so depending upon different conditions prevailing in the sea, it has been estimated that the seahorses have life span ranging from 3 to 14 years, respectively.
Seahorse reproduction
This very fact is going to add up to your knowledge that in seahorses, it's the male seahorse which becomes pregnant.
The mating process involves the female inserting her oviduct in to the brooding pouch of its male counterpart.
In order to combat exhaustion, she does the process vehemently over occurrence of several times. In between she resorts to rest; the male seahorse contorts itself to make sure the eggs are being taken by him at the right place in his brood pouch.
Once this activity is done with, the male seahorse moves away and attaches itself to a plant nearby. But, the female moves away to ensure her reduction of oviduct and the oviduct recede usually in few hours.
The eggs are fertilized in the male's brood pouch.
Birth
The male seahorses are pregnant for a slew of weeks and then give birth to their brood pouch. When they are about to give birth, the brood pouch gets extended in spherical size. They also go under several minutes of muscular contortions, a forward and backward bend and then in an explosive action the brood gets detached from the body. Once after the last young seahorse is left in the sea, the male is again ready to re-mate with the female within a few hours from giving their birth.
Sex Role Reversal
Since the male seahorses are the sole channel of seahorse reproduction, much speculations and research has been carried out to yield out matter as to whether or not there are sex role reversal.
Sex reversal role involves the female basically competing for male as a mate. In the entire reproduction cycle, it's the male seahorse that provides all the nourishment and prenatal care to the young ones to be frisked out.
Conclusions
- Seahorses are important members of sea or aquatic life and their presence in the sea definitely brings about a balance of eco system down there.
- Many enthusiastic people and researchers have taken the subject of seahorse as their medium of study and research.
- The interest level in the same has increased my manifolds as the basic awareness pertaining to their lifestyles and other peripherals have also increased in the last decade.
- Governments of various states have also come with projects to save these seahorses and other animals down the bed of the sea to go extinct.
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