A small fish of temperate eastern Atlantic waters, found from the United Kingdom and Netherlands south to Morocco, including the Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira, as well as the Mediterranean Sea and Italian coast. It has a slender body, a long snout and a prehensile tail, with dermal filaments on its head and dorsal ridge that can be simple or branched, and coloring from dark green to brown or yellow, usually flecked with white. It reaches a maximum of about 21.5 centimeters, averaging closer to 12, and lives in shallow coastal water one to twenty meters deep, favoring seagrass meadows or mixed habitats of sand, rock and algae.
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Classification
System (Realm) Living or Extinct Scientific Name Conservation Status Connections
Child Taxon Of
Source Long-snouted Seahorse (Wikidata)
In Biome
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Belgium, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Denmark, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Greece, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Norway, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Spain, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Ukraine, found in there.
Sources
1. GBIF Species API
2. Long-snouted Seahorse (Wikidata)
Wikidata- Wikidata Q1071955 (P225 taxon name)
- Wikidata P141 (IUCN conservation status) claim, entity QID Q1071955
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): near threatened.
- Child Taxon Of: Seahorse, Wikidata P171 (parent taxon) claim, rank=normal, target=Q74363 (Seahorse)
View the Source Long-snouted Seahorse (Wikipedia)
In Biome: Marine, Wikipedia intro: "latus, commonly known as the long-snouted seahorse and in Great Britain as the spiny seahorse, is a marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae. It is nati..."View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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