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Updated 12/20/2022

Family Syngnathidae

EAST INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Hippocampus kuda

Waikiki Aquarium

 

SE Oahu, 4 feet

Moku o Loe, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, 2 feet



SE Oahu, 4 feet


Makapu'u, Oahu, 10 feet



Ma'alaea Bay, Maui



Central Philippines
   

SPOTTED SEAHORSE

Locally common in bays and estuaries where it clings to rocks, seaweed, or debris.  It was extremely rare in Hawaii before the millennium.  Trapezoidal crest atop head, yellow to dark brown without elaborate markings.  Attains 7 inches.  Pakistan to Japan, Hawaii, and the Society Islands.