Tiger tail seahorse
Amazing fact
Male tiger tail seahorses carry the eggs until they are ready to hatch.
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Male tiger tail seahorses carry the eggs until they are ready to hatch.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Tiger tail seahorse
- Scientific name
- Hippocampus comes
- Japanese name
- タイガーテイルシーホース
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Family
- Syngnathidae
- Genus
- Hippocampus
True to its name, it looks like a tiger: its body is yellow or black, and its tail is striped.
How the Tiger tail seahorse lives
It is found among sponges, in seagrass meadows, on coral reefs and among kelp. It eats zooplankton.
Mote Marine Laboratory & AquariumBasic data
- Range
- Waters of Southeast Asia
Where the Tiger tail seahorse has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- タイガーテイルシーホース
- 简体中文
- 虎尾海马
- 繁體中文
- 虎尾海馬
- Deutsch
- Tigerschwanz-Seepferdchen
- Português (Brasil)
- Cavalo-marinho-cauda-de-tigre
- Italiano
- Cavalluccio dalla coda tigrata
- العربية
- فرس البحر ذيل النمر
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kuda laut ekor harimau
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá ngựa đuôi hổ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — タイガーテイルシーホースChecked: 2026-11-04
- Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium — Tiger tail seahorseChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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