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Nevertheless, this peculiarity of the sea horse has contributed to many myths and legends, and myths and legends eventually inspire deeds. Hundreds of baby sea horses are thrust out into the water, but very few survive to adulthood.Ī pregnant male is indeed an oddity–as if an absolute law of nature had been reversed, as if a great taboo had been transgressed. After sometimes as long as six weeks, the male goes into what is clearly labor.

The sea horse, like the octopus and cuttlefish, has the ability to change color and texture in order to camouflage its whereabouts, but during courtship and while the male is carrying, the mates always “brighten” when they meet. During this period, the female takes care of the pregnant male, visiting him daily during what appears to be intimate moments as the pair tenderly nuzzle each other. Then a very strange thing happens: the female inserts her eggs into an enclosed pouch on the male’s abdomen, and the male, usually anchored to one spot for the entire duration, fertilizes and incubates the brood. When a male and a female meet sexually, they engage in a ballet-like dance of courtship that can last for hours. They seem to be the most devoted of partners.

She hooks her tail around an adjacent blade of grass and gently sways by his side. The only social interlude in an otherwise solitary day is when the male’s partner arrives for her morning visit, which happens like clockwork. However, unlike other sea creatures, sea horses do form attachments with their mates.

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He lays claim to a small patch of sea-bed grass, attaching himself with his tail, and stays there, day in and day out. The male sea horse leads a solitary existence. Sea horses are not social creatures, as they do not swim in vast schools like many of the fish of the sea. The sea horse is an amusing amalgam of incommensurable parts-a horse’s head, dragon’s scales, the free-roving eyes and changeable colors of a chameleon, tail of a monkey, a kangaroo’s pouch, the armor of an insect, and the wings of a hummingbird-yet the fact remains that it is simply a fish. This makes for a rather passive, secretive existence the sea horse hides from predators within the sea grasses and coral, and waits for its prey–usually rotifers and brine shrimp–which it sucks up with a clicking noise. While lacking powerful fins, it is endowed with a long prehensile tail which, monkey-like, it wraps around just about anything. Unlike the typical fish, the sea horse is covered with a bony armor rather than scales. The rather long, toothless, tubular snout gives it its characteristic horse appearance. The head is at a right angle to the body, and the major organs (the gills, heart and liver) lie just behind the head. The sea horse’s vertical posture is an exception within the animal kingdom. Lacking the torpedo shape of most fish, it floats vertically in the water, being propelled almost imperceptibly by two pectoral fins on either side of its head and one small dorsal fin. It is a favorite of aquarium owners and exotic-fish enthusiasts.Īt first sight, the sea horse seems ill adapted to its underwater environment. Hippocampus kuda is found along the eastern coast of India and in the waters surrounding all of Indonesia up into the Sea of Japan. There are over 32 species of the sea horse. This is an evolutionary leap from the phylum mollusca, which includes Sepia officinalis, Calcarea carbonica, and Murex Purpera. Although for years its exact classification was in doubt, it is definitely a fish-meaning, a vertebrate.

The sea horse is called Hippocampus, a Greek word meaning “horse monster.” It belongs to the family Syngnathidea, which also includes the pipe fish and the sea dragon ( Phycodurus eques). Conducted and written by the New York School of Homeopathy team- NYSH Director Susan Sonz, C.C.H., I.H.C., Robert Stewart, C.C.H., and Sonam Kushner, C.C.H.