Longsnout seahorse
Seahorses are fish that have a tube-shaped mouth and prehensile tail, with which they attach to surfaces, such as algae and corals. A peculiarity is that the males “get pregnant” and the young are born the same as the adults.
Despite their body being different from most of the fish we know, seahorses are part of the bony fish group. Its body is made up of small bony plates and lacks scales. They can change color and move their eyes independently. They are difficult to find, as they adapt to the environment in which they live by camouflaging themselves among algae and corals. They have a prehensile tail, which they use to attach themselves to the substrate, preventing them from being carried away by currents. They are ovoviviparous! The female deposits her eggs in the male's incubator bag, which fertilizes and carries them until birth. A single male can give birth to 150 to 1,200 pups per gestation depending on the species.
Longsnout seahorse - Hippocampus reidi
This species of seahorse is found in the Atlantic Ocean, from North Carolina, in the United States, to southern Brazil, in Santa Catarina. It is a fish that lives in marine and brackish waters, usually associated with reefs, at depths ranging from 0 to 55 meters. They are carnivorous animals and maintain their diet based on plankton, small molluscs and small crustaceans, such as our artemia. The maximum size it can reach is about 17 cm.