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Hawaiian Fishes 



Sea Horse 



64-6 Hippocampus histrix Kaup 

 This sea horse reaches a length of six inches and is found from the 

 Red Sea eastward through the East Indies, to Tahiti, Japan, and the 

 Hawaiian Islands. 



Sea Horse 



64-7 Hippocampus kuda Bleeker 



This sea horse varies in color from a 

 blackish brown with an orange back- 

 ground to a golden yellow on the lower 

 trunk. Although most of the sea horses 

 measure about three inches in length, they 

 may reach a length of about nine inches. 

 The tail of this species is no longer than 

 the head and trunk. This fish is often 

 found in the stomachs of larger fishes. 



This species is distributed throughout 

 the Indo-Pacific area including Japan and 

 the Hawaiian Islands. 



Drawn from Jordan & Evermann 



THE SEA MOTH FAMILY 



65 Family Pegasidae 



This family includes the sea moths and the sea dragons. They all 

 have a long snout and a toothless mouth beneath and rarely exceed four 

 inches in length. Their bodies are covered with bony plates and the 

 dorsal and anal fins are very short. The pectoral fins are large and well 

 developed. Fish experts thought that they resembled Pegasus, the winged 

 horse of Greek mythology and named the family for this flying horse. 



Only one species is known from Hawaiian waters. 



Hawaiian Sea Moth 

 65-1 Pegasis papilio Gilbert 

 This sea moth is olive, pale brown, or yellowish olive above and is 

 spotted with white and red. It is whitish in color beneath. This species 



