Hippocampus kuda

The spotted seahorse or yellow seahorse was first identified by a Bleeker in 1952. The details of such and its old names are mostly unknown to me. However, I know that it used to be known as H. atterimushttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Poseidon_s_Steed/4Wifibfq2rMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT134&printsec=frontcover. Studies of aquarium specimens show that larger (and older) parents produce offspring that are more likely to survivehttps://projectseahorse.org/resource/effect-of-parental-age-and-associated-size-on-fecundity-growth-and-survival-in-the-yellow-seahorse-hippocampus-kuda/https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/209/16/3055/16222/Effect-of-parental-age-and-associated-size-on. This is supposed to suggest that wild specimens would also survive better, however aquarium life is much different from the conditions in the wild. If the seahorses are dying without predators, there's probably something wrong with the aquarium conditions or what they're feeding the young. Which, granted, the young of older and larger seahorses are more likely to survive. Seahorses are generally very sensitive to tank conditions, humans don't know how to get it right yethttps://www.google.com/books/edition/Poseidon_s_Steed/4Wifibfq2rMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT124&printsec=frontcover. They may be able to breed at 3 months old and males give birth after a 14 or 15 day gestation.
== Sea also ==
Seahorses
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