Hippocampus kuda
English: Yellow seahorse.
Region: eastern coast of India, around Indonesia, sea of Japan.
Stage 13
Zoology
Seahorses developed the new, upright swimming to, to find camouflage in the upright seagrass blades. Seahorses can maneuver with ease through these highly complex habitats without getting entangled.
Only 1 in 1000 survive to adult; they prefer to swim in pairs; they can easily die in a storm from exhaustion; they protect themselves from predators with camouflage and exoskeleton; 90% kill rate of prey due to camouflage; male has babies; they are monogamous, have mate for life; they are bad swimmers; they are killed for medicine by humans.
Literature
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/seahorse/#:~:text=Seahorse%20Predators%20and%20Prey&text=plankton%2C%20tiny%20species%20of%20fish.&text=Crustaceans%20such%20as%20crabs%2C%20fish,with%20seahorses%20in%20their%20stomach.
www.molecularecology.flinders.edu.au/uploads/54834/ufiles/pdf/54-seahorse.pdf
www.researchgate.net/figure/A-chronogram-scaled-to-geological-time-reconstructed-from-DNA-sequence-data-of-seahorses_fig1_24435987
www.nature.com/articles/nature20595.pdf?origin=ppub