The important characters of Seahorse are given below:

1) They all range in size from 6-12 inches although most fall in the 6-inch category. The color range of sea horses is enormous.

2) They can be white, yellow, red, brown, black, gray, spotted or banded. Sea horses are pieced together with many different parts and abilities of other sea animals.

3) The tube-shaped snout lent to the sea horse by the aardvark is its mouth. It is made of an upper and lower jaw, both of which are toothless!

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4) The seahorse opens and closes its jaw in a rapid snapping movement while lowering the floor of its mouth to increase volume.

5) The snout is designed to suck up microscopic animals that live in the water.

6) The bony plate of armor that Stegosaurus loaned the seahorse covers its entire body.

7) Each species has a distinct number of rings but that number varies between different members of the Hippocampus family.

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8) The center of the body of the seahorse has three pairs of lateral ridges with one ridge along the stomach area.

9) Operculum is fused with body wall.

10) Male carries egg on vertebral surface.