海马纳鲁,今天正式描述了Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse,它代表了在非洲发现的这些隐秘物种中的第一个。多年来,只有三种侏儒海马种,但今天出版海马纳鲁标志着这些小指大小的伪装大师中的第八。
Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse最初是由Drs发现的。路易斯·克拉森斯(Louw Claassens)和理查德·史密斯(Richard Smith管道马。到目前为止,所有前七种侏儒海马种类仅在印度太平洋中被记录在印度洋中,但海马纳鲁代表了印度洋的第一批py虫海马,这是这组8,000公里以上的范围。
令人惊讶的是,新的Sodwana Pygmy Seahorse的类型标本是在仅12到15米的非常小的深度收集的,或者在40至55英尺深的地方。与所有其他种类的侏儒海马一样海马纳鲁has an extremely cryptic coloration which makes it almost disappear in its natural habitat, which explains why it has gone unnoticed until now. It’s very likely that this species, and perhaps other African pygmy seahorses are waiting to be discovered along the African coast, but it just takes an experienced keen observer to spot them. [动物园这是给出的