Hippocampus camelopardalis

The giraffe seahorse doesn't have a long neck, but it does have some small brown spots on a yellow backgroundhttps://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/102814-Hippocampus-camelopardalis. The name camelopardalis means the same as its common English name. It is found on the southeast African reefs and seagrass bedshttps://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10064/100939136https://projectseahorse.org/protecting-giraffes-giraffe-seahorses-that-is-in-mozambique/. Credit for the species is given to Bianconi in 1854, though the history on this is hard to discover.
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Category:Seahorses