Hippocampus tyro
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| Hippocampus tyro | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | Syngnathidae |
| Genus: | Hippocampus |
| Species: | H. tyro |
| Binomial name | |
| Hippocampus tyro J. E. Randall & Lourie, 2009 | |
Hippocampus tyro is a seahorse, a fish in the family Syngnathidae. The species is only known from a single specimen caught off of the coast of the Seychelles at a depth of between 43 and 48m[3] and another photographed near the coast of Sainte-Rose, Réunion.
The hippocampus tyro is unlike other seahorses of its class, because it has 14 trunk rings where as others have a range of 8-13. [4]
