Fish of the Hippocampus genus of the Hippocampinae (seahorses) subfamily of the Syngnathidae family of the Syngnathiformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Short-snouted seahorse. Photo by © Stavros Markopoulos. flickr.com/photos/markop)
Short–snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It inhabits the depths down to 60 meters. It prefers to swim near the soft bottom among the rocks and algae, imitating green and yellow plants. The maximum recorded length is 15 cm. It feeds on small organisms.
(Short-snouted seahorse. Photo by © Francesco Turano. colapisci.it)
It is a permanent rare inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of short-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) in other languages as follows:
Kali i detit turishkurtër (Albanian), Zeepaardje (Dutch), Caballito de mar (Spanish), Cavalluccio marino camuso (Italian), Kurzschnäuziges Seepferdchen (German), Pławikonik europejski (Polish), Cavalo-marinho (Portuguese), Короткорылый морской конёк (Korotkorylyi morskoj konjok) (Russian), Kratkokljuni morski konjić (Serbian, Croatian), Denizatı balığı (Turkish), Hippocampe à nez court (French).