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Hippocampus kuda (Common seahorse; Estuary seahorse; Oceanic sea horse; Oceanic sea horse red; Sea horse; Spotted seahorse; Yellow sea horse; Yellow seahorse; Seahorse; Estuarine seahorse)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hippocampus kuda, also known as the estuary seahorse, yellow seahorse or spotted seahorse is a seahorse of the family Syngnathidae native to the Indo-Pacific.
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Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Hippocampus kuda

Attributes

Gestation [2]  17 days
Litter Size [2]  1,405
Migration [3]  Oceanodromous
Water Biome [1]  Reef, Coastal
Diet [1]  Carnivore, Planktivore

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Sulawesi Indonesia Australasia Tropical and Subtropical Coastal Rivers    

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Life history and ecology of seahorses: implications for conservation and management, S. J. FOSTER AND A. C. J. VINCENT, Journal of Fish Biology (2004) 65, 1–61
♦ 3Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0