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Diet: Carnivore.

Size: Leafy, up to 13.8 in (35 cm), Weedy, up to 18 in (46 cm).

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The tail of a male leafy sea dragon will turn bright yellow when he is ready to mate.

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They are fish because they have got gills, they are aquatic animals and they are poikilotherms, too.

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Relatively little is known about the small aquatic animals, which with their bodies look like miniature versions of the dragon.
Scientists don't know how long seadragons tend to live. They don't know how old seadragons must be to reproduce, and they don't know how to identify the boys from the girls—until they start to mate.
Scientists haven't had much luck studying seadragons in the wild because they are very strange.

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Seadragons have only been in captivity for 15 years. The Long Beach aquarium acquired Big Daddy (a seadragon) when he was 6 months old. Today, the museum has seven weedy seadragons and 12 leafy seadragons. Of the seven weedy ones there are three males, one female and three babies whose sex has yet to be determined.

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The seadragon's name is derived from its likeness to another creature (the dragon).

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The seadragon's name is derived from its likeness to another creature (the dragon).

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That seahorse is found in many different locations around North and South  America. They are typically located in tropical waters that are quite warm. They will be found living along the coral and the seagrass. In Europe they are known to reside in the river Thames. Many of the larger species are living in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Life - Weedy seadragons dance into the night - BBC One

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The males are in charge of the eggs.The female produces up to 250 eggs.The female lays the eggs in the male's tail. The eggs turn purple or orange during this period, after which the male drives its tail until the infants emerge, a process that lasts between 24-48 hours. The male helps the eggs hatch shaking his tail. When born are about 20 mm long. Only about 5% of the eggs survive. It takes 28 weeks to reach sexual maturity.

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They breathe through gills.

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The seadragon uses the fins along the side of its head to turn. However, its outer skin is rigid, limiting mobility. Seadragons have been observed remaining in one location for extended periods of time (up to 68 hours), but will sometimes move for long periods. They move about 150 m per hour.

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The common seadragon is a desired species in international aquariums. The volume of wild-caught individuals is small and not currently a major threat. Instead, habitat loss, degradation, human activities, pollution threaten common seadragons most. The loss of suitable seagrass beds put the future of seadragon populations at risk. This species is not at present a victim of bycatch or a target of trade in Traditional Chinese Medicine, two activities which are currently a threat to many related seahorse population.

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They are hunt by collectors, and used in medicine. They are vulnerable when first born, and are slow swimmers, reducing their chance of escaping from a predator. They can't curl their tails and hold onto seagrasses to stay safe.

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The Leafy and the Weedy seadragon, but the best known are the Leafies.

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Scienticic classification of the Leafy Seadragon

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Scienticic classification of the Leafy Seadragon

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Syngnathiformes

Family: Syngnathidae

Subfamily: Syngnathinae

Genus: Phycodurus

Species: P. eques

Binominal name: Phycodurus eques

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The dragon seahorse is a marine and vertebrate fish, because it has got endoskeleton and backbone.

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The dragon seahorse is a marine and vertebrate fish, because it has got endoskeleton and backbone.

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Scientific cassification of the Weedy Seadragon

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Scientific cassification of the Weedy Seadragon

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Order: Syngnathiformes

Family: Syngnathidae

Subfamily: Syngnathinae

Genus: Phyllopteryx

Species: P. taeniolatus

Binominal name: Phyllopteryx taeniolatus