Hippocampus guttulatus

They are called the Long-snouted seahorse or spiny seahorse. They may be the species with their backs are covered in long cirri, which makes them reminiscent of a hedgehog or a porcupine. However, other sources show seahorses that lack this feature. Despite this it might be better to call them the spiny seahorse, as otherwise their contending the name with the longsnout seahorse. Or perhaps the longsnout seahorse should be called the slender seahorse while this one keeps the name. Either way, both these species have almost the same name. Reidi is the Longsnout Seahorse, while guttulatus is the Long-Snouted SeahorseLiittschwagei, David (2022) pg. 133 ISBN: 1426221797. Their scientific name is biologist Latin for "having small speckles"https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guttulatus. Their identification is attributed to Cuvier in 1829, but I don't have more information on this. These seaporcupines live in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Germany to the Mediterranean sea. Their depth ranges greatly, from 3 feet to 66 feet deep (1-20 m). They live close or within meadows of eelgrass or Poseidon seagrass (fittingly enough)https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/102821-Hippocampus-guttulatus. The population in Portuguese waters dislike the noise of motor boatshttps://projectseahorse.org/resource/effects-of-anthropogenic-noise-wild-populations-of-hippocampus-portugal/. The IUCN doesn't have enough data on them to know whether they are endangered or nothttps://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41006/67617766. Fossils of the spiny seahorse have been found. They have existed for 3 million years. It is possible that these are the oldest surviving species of seahorseshttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seahorse&oldid=1088533517#Evolution_and_fossil_record. These fossils were found at the Marecchia River Formation in Italy. As a fossil they're called H. ramulosushttps://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Hippocampus+ramulosus&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1.
== Sea also ==
Seahorses
== References ==
Category:Seahorses
Category:Living fossils
Category:Marine life of the Meditteranean sea