Hello friends in this article you are going to read about sea horses.
1. Sea horses are kinds of fishes having a horse like head.
2. There 40 species of sea horses who are endangered.
3. There are 47 species of sea horses to be be exist.
4. There are 5 species in India- Great seahorse, the spiny seahorse, yellow seahorse, hedgehog seahorse and spot seahorse.
5. UK has 2 species but they have been not seen for a long time and may be extinct.
6. Their size varies for 0.5 inch to 14 inches.
7. They live mainly in tropical and temperate coastal areas living in coral reefs, mangroves, sea grass and estuaries.
8. They have exoskeleton and have hard external, bony plates on their body which are fused together with a fleshy covering.
9. The ale sea horse is the the only creature which can get pregnant.
10. The Cape sea horse of South Africa will get extinct in few years because of water pollution.
11. The Chinese nonsensical native medicine (TCM) kills 150 million sea horses per year.
12. The Curio Trade take 10 million sea horses from wild with shells and starfishes and then they are dried to die and then sold by hundreds of dollars and ranges the price to many thousands per kilo.
13. In Tamil Nadu(Indian state),there are millions of sea horses killed and sold.
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