The beautiful color seahorses belong to the most marvelous and most remarkable organisms of the seas. Really a seahorse is quite a normal fish. It just comes along in a very special dress. There are about 35 different kinds of species of seahorses. They are spread all over the world. Only a small amount of this variet is often imported for the aquarist purposes.
Seahorses are vertebrates. Really their taxanomic classification of the kingdoms animal, phylum Chordata, sub-phylum Vertebrata, Class Osteichthyes and Order Perciformes. They are related to the family Syngnathidae (which is Greek) and gnathos - jaw (which is also Greek.) They include seadragons, pipetisles and pipe horses. Seahoses make up the genus Hippocampus ( which is Greek) and campos (which means sea animal in Greek) and campos (which means seaanimal in Greek.)
