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Syngnathidae
Jayakar's seahorse
Hippocampus jayakari
Male incubates eggs in tail pouch
Jayakar's seahorse is a marine fish of Western Indian Ocean. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 14 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Hippocampus
- Maximum length
- 14 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- other
- Distribution
- Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea and Arabian Sea (Israel), Oman and Pakistan.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

