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Long-snouted seahorse
Hippocampus guttulatus
A fish that swims upright and holds on to seagrass with its curly tail. One kind lives in the Mar Menor, in Spain.
- Weight
- About 10 g
- Size
- Up to 18 cm long
- Lifespan
- About 5 years
- Top speed
- One of the slowest fish
- Diet
- Tiny shrimps and plankton
How heavy is that?
So light that a 40 kg kid weighs as much as 4,000 of them
Where it lives
Three things to know
- The father carries the eggs in a pouch and gives birth.
- Its eyes move separately, like a chameleon's.
- It has no stomach, so it eats almost all the time.
Compare with…
- Weight
- Long-snouted seahorse10 gA 10-year-old kid40 kgThe kid weighs about 4,000× as much as the seahorse
- Size
- Long-snouted seahorse18 cmA 10-year-old kid1.4 mThe kid is about 8× as big as the seahorse
- Top speed
- Long-snouted seahorse—A 10-year-old kid20 km/hToo slow to time
- Lifespan
- Long-snouted seahorse5 yrsA 10-year-old kid80 yrsThe kid can live about 16× as long as the seahorse
Food chain
- Tiny algaeProducer
- Plankton
Long-snouted seahorseThis animal- Crabs