Question

Hippocampus is called as 'sea horse', becuase

• A. It has horse like body.
• B. It's snout resembles horse snout.
• C. It's tail resembles horse tail.
• D. It swims fast like fast running of a horse.

Answer 1

The correct option is B It's snout resembles horse snout.

Seahorse is the marine organism. They belong to the genus of Hippocampus. They are bony fishes. They do not have the presence of scales on their body when compared to the other bony fishes. The body is composed of bony plates. The skin tissue is present over the bony plates. The bony plates are arranged in series like the rings. In Hippocampus the head and neck (snout) is similar to that of horse. So, they are known as seahorse. They have segmented bony armour, an upright posture and a curled prehensile tail.

Thus, the correct answer is option B.