#2160 · 🐟 fish

Long-snouted Seahorse

🇳🇱 Langsnuitzeepaardje ·Hippocampus guttulatus

NTnear threatened 🐟 Fish 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Bernat Espigulé · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Pauline Fey · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Mare Per Sempre · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Pierre Corbrion · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Hippocampus guttulatus , commonly known as the long-snouted seahorse , is a marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae, native from the northeast Atlantic, including the Mediterranean.

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,520iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).