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Considered one of the strangest and most indecipherable animals, the hippocampus (also known as the horse sea) is a fish that has a silhouette elongated and narrow, with the head opposite at 45 ° to the rest of the body and with the curled tail. All these elements completely differentiate it from the rest of the fish and that is why many times it is doubted about its membership to this group.

The hippocampus or seahorse belongs to the family of the Syngnathidae, all fish that have different shapes than most fish and that are characterized for presenting well-marked bone structures, observable with the naked eye as happens with the hippocampus. The other animals belonging to this family, like the hippocampus, share the fact that Females produce the eggs that are deposited inside the male's body and it is he who incubates them until that are born.

Unlike the rest of the fish, the hippocampi do not have scales, in the same way that they do not swim horizontally if not they swim vertically. Although they have dorsal fins like the rest of the fish, they do not serve much to propel their swim because they are very small and they cannot acquire large

The seahorses feed on small crustaceans and the plankton that is scattered in the Water as well as in plants. They are animals that can be kept in captivity although it is important to bear in mind that they are very delicate and attention they require is greater than that required by any fish. Hippocampi exist in more than fifty species different that represent variations especially in colors, in the shape of its tail, its head or in some other body elements.