A seahorse is a fish, despite unique anatomical shape, lack of scales, no teeth and behaviour of sucking in food through its snout. besides, it does not have caudal fins, has a head that resembles a horse and a long snake-like tail.
A seahorse is a fish since it lives in water, breaths through gills and has a swim bladder. It swims vertically due to following reasons
lacks pelvic fins
has bony plates over body
has stiff tube-like snout with a small mouth at the tip
moves eyeballs independently
A male seahorse carries a large number of babies and gives birth to them instead of females. He abandons babies who hide themselves to save themselves from predators
A seahorse grips objects with its strong tail.
When a seahorse gets close to the prey, it jerks its head extremely quickly and consumes
the tiny copepod to be deemed as one of the deadliest predators in the sea.
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