Hippocampus tyro

Hippocampus tyro is a seahorse, a fish in the family Syngnathidae. The species is only known from a single specimen caught off of the coast of the Seychelles at a depth of between 43 and 48m^[3] and another photographed near the coast of Sainte-Rose, Réunion.

Hippocampus tyro
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Syngnathiformes
Family:	Syngnathidae
Genus:	Hippocampus
Species:	H. tyro
Binomial name
Hippocampus tyro J. E. Randall & Lourie, 2009

The hippocampus tyro is unlike other seahorses of its class, because it has 14 trunk rings where as others have a range of 8-13. ^[4]