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Longsnout seahorses are very poor swimmers and rely on camouflage and bony plates that cover most of their bodies to avoid predation. Like other seahorses, the longsnout seahorse’s tail is highly maneuverable, and it uses this tail to attach itself to seagrasses, mangrove roots, sponges, soft corals, or other places where it hides.
The longsnout seahorse can be found at depths of 0-55 meters (0-180 feet); however, younger individuals tend to stay near shallow habitats. Longsnout seahorses generally have a narrow body, a long thick snout, and a crown-shaped piece of skin located at the top of the head known as a “coronet”. They have a low, round tubercle (outward ...
The long-snouted seahorse has a carnivorous diet and feeds on small crustaceans, larvae, fish eggs and other planktonic organisms.It is ovoviviparous and it is the male who broods the eggs in its ventral brood pouch. The latter includes villi rich in capillaries that surround each fertilized egg, creating a sort of placenta supplying the embryos.
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As you could guess, longsnout seahorses have a long snout. They have a slender body that can grow up to about 7 inches in length. On top of their head is a coronet that is low and convoluted. These seahorses may have brown and white dots over their skin, which is a variety of colors, including black, yellow, red-orange, or brown. They may also have...
Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum:ChordataClass:ActinopterygiiOrder:GasterosteiformesLongsnout seahorses are found in the western North Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Brazil. They are also found in the Caribbean Sea and Bermuda. They are found in relatively shallow water (0 to 180 feet) and are often attached to seagrasses, mangroves, and gorgonians or among floating Sargassum, oysters, sponges, or man-made structures. Femal...
Longsnout seahorses eat small crustaceans, plankton, and plants using their long snout with a pipette-like motion to suck in their food as it passes by. These animals feed during the day and rest at night by attaching to structures in the water such as mangroves or seagrasses.
Longsnout seahorses are sexually mature when they are about 3 inches long. Like other seahorses, they are ovoviviparous. This seahorse species mates for life. Seahorses have a dramatic courtship ritual in which the male may change color and inflate his pouch and the male and female perform a "dance" around each other. Once courtship is complete, th...
The global population of the species is listed as near-threatened on the IUCN Red Listas of an October 2016 assessment. One threat to this seahorse is harvest for use in aquariums, as souveniers, as medicinal remedies, and for religious purposes. They also are caught as bycatchin shrimp fisheries in the U.S., Mexico, and Central America and are thr...
Bester, C. Longsnout Seahorse. Florida Museum of Natural History.Lourie, S.A., Foster, S.J., Cooper, E.W.T. and A.C.J. Vincent. 2004. A Guide to the Identification of Seahorses. Project Seahorse and TRAFFIC North America. 114 pp.Lourie, S.A., A.C.J. Vincent and H.J. Hall, 1999. Seahorses: an identification guide to the world's species and their conservation. Project Seahorse, London. 214 p. via FishBase.Project Seahorse 2003. Hippocampus reidi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.2.The slender seahorses have a gestation period of around two weeks and typically grow to be approximately 6.8 inches long (17.5 centimeters), while the mean height of juvenile slender seahorses is only around 8.2 millimeters. Males are usually orange, while the females are yellow.
Hippocampus reidi, longsnout seahorse. Photo by Jemma/Utila Dive Center. Our latest featured iSeahorse observation is courtesy of Jemma, aka jemmaudc, who works at Utila Dive Center, our iSeahorse Ambassador for Honduras. This ethereal beauty was spotted off the Caribbean coast, and has been identified as a longsnout seahorse (Hippocampus reidi), which has a range spanning from North Carolina ...
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Also known as Horsefish, Long-snouted Seahorse, Reidi Seahorse, Slender Seahorse. Found singly or in pairs, anchored with their tails to gorgonians and seagrasses, over muddy bottoms of estuaries and seaward reefs, also sometimes off-shore attached to drifting seaweed rafts. They feed on zooplankton which they suck whole into their mouths.
