Reunion seahorse
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Reunion Seahorse ( Hippocampus borboniensis ) |
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The Réunion seahorse ( Hippocampus borboniensis ) is a species of the seahorse genus .
features
The seahorse reaches a maximum length of 14 cm. The color varies between a green-brown with yellow dots with marbled broken lines in the head area and a single-colored dark. As a rule, the specimens from deeper water are very colorful, pure white to reddish brown or show a clearly visible stripe pattern and have no thread-like attachments, while the animals living in shallow water are more simply colored and partially overgrown with algae, which also hide the drawing. The dorsal fin is supported by 16 to 18 fin rays.
Occurrence and way of life
Hippocampus borboniensis occurs off the islands of Madagascar , Mauritius and Réunion as well as off the East African coast of South Africa , Mozambique and Tanzania . It lives there mainly at a depth of 5 to 60 m on soft soils, on sponges and in sea grass meadows . Reports of occurrences in the Maldives or from the Western Pacific are based on confusion with Hippocampus kuda .
literature
- Rudie H. Kuiter : Seahorses: pipefish, shredded fish and their relatives. Eugen Ulmer, 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3244-3
- Sara A. Lourie et al .: A Guide to the Identification of Seahorses . Project Seahorse and TRAFFIC North America. University of British Columbia and World Wildlife Fund, Washington DC 2004, ISBN 0-89164-169-6 .
Web links
- Hippocampus borboniensis on Fishbase.org (English)
- Hippocampus borboniensis inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Project Seahorse, 2003. Retrieved February 4, 2014.