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Updated 8/1/2025

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


Oahu, Hawaii
  
   

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.