Sabina and her dad brought this lined seahorse, Hippocampus erectus, to the Nature Center on Aug. 11th. Sabina named it Mystical. A bony fish, the seahorse does not have scales, but bony plates covered with skin. It has eyes that move independently of each other and a tail that likes to wrap around thin seaweeds or grasses. Notice its long snout that it uses to suck up food. We are feeding it brine shrimp. Come see Mystical the seahorse and its cousins, our pipefish, at the Nature Center this month!
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