Hippocampus subelongatus

The West Australian seahorse is found between southwestern Cape Leeuwin to northeastern Shark Bay and they breed near rivers. The species was made/identified by some bloke named Castelnau in 1873, though the details and the name he actually gave it are unknown to this author as of writing. It seems to have been renamed from Hippocampus angustus . There seems to be some confusion over how West Australian seahorse assesses its potential mates by size. One source insists that they choose their spouse by its similarity in size to its own, while another insists that males choose females with larger body and head sizes. They are a protected species. https://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/blogs/museumfish/fish-focus-west-australian-seahorse#:~:text=The%20West%20Australian%20Seahorse%20is%20quite%20a%20large,even%20purple%2C%20but%20they%20can%20change%20colour%20too.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1766380/
== References ==
Category:Seahorses