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Sea Horses

Sea Horses. BY: AMBER GARCIA. TAXONOMY. -Kingdom: Animalia -Phylum :Chordata -Class: Actinopterygii -Order: Syngnathiformus -Family: Syngnathidae -Genus: Hippocampus. Hippocampus. Hippocampus. HABITAT & DISTRIBUTION. Sheltered in seaweed & tropical waters. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.

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Sea Horses

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  1. Sea Horses BY: AMBER GARCIA

  2. TAXONOMY -Kingdom: Animalia -Phylum :Chordata -Class: Actinopterygii -Order: Syngnathiformus -Family: Syngnathidae -Genus: Hippocampus Hippocampus • Hippocampus

  3. HABITAT & DISTRIBUTION Sheltered in seaweed & tropical waters.

  4. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS Seahorses have a long snout and a bony covering.

  5. Five Senses -Taste: Crunchy -Smell: Fishy; Great sense of smell -Touch: Very bony -Sight: Are like lizards the right eye stays right and the left stays left -Hearing: Great listeners

  6. BEHAVIOR Seahorses swim upright with tails down and heads up. They are poor swimmers and there are over 72,000 seahorses in the Gulf of Mexico.

  7. RESPIRATION Passive Diffusion

  8. THERMOREGULATION Provides steady body temperature for the seahorses.

  9. DIET • Water Fleas • Crustaceans • Small Shrimp

  10. FOOD WEB

  11. EATING HABITS Seahorses use a special sucking movement of their snout.

  12. Predators • Crabs • Rays • Tuna Fish

  13. REPRODUCTION & YOUNG CARE In reproduction the male becomes pregnant! When they are born the male doesn’t take care of the baby seahorse. Also, when they are born they are so tiny, many float away but are able to survive by finding food.

  14. Cause of Death Pollution Overfishing

  15. CAUSE OF DEATH CONT. • Angler Fish • Flatheads

  16. THREATS TO SPECIES Environmental: Pollution Manmade: Oil Spill

  17. LONGEVITY & CAUSE OF DEATH The seahorse have a life span of 1 to 5 years. They mature to adulthood only after three months.

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