HIPPOCAMPUS: CHARACTERISTICS AND COMMENTS, CLASSIFICATION, DIAGRAM

                            Hippocampus


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Habit and Habitat: Hippocampus is a vertically swimming fish. It has a horse-shaped head and snout.

                                                                     

                                                 
FIG: LABELLED DIAGRAM OF HIPPOCAMPUS.


  • It is commonly called as a sea horse.
  • The head is produced into a long tubular snout.
  • It is covered by an exoskeleton of bony plates or rings.
  • The tail is prehensile.
  • The operculum is fused with the body wall posteriorly and ventrally leaving a branchial aperture gill opening.
  • Pelvic and caudal fins are absent.
  • Mimicry by having numerous prominent or cutaneous trailing filaments.
  • The male hippocampus bears a brood pouch.

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