Hippocampus, a peculiar bony fish of sea

Hippocampus  is the peculiar bony fish of marine habitat. It is quite different from the other remaining bony fishes. Being a bony fish it exhibits all the general characters of the other bony fishes such as presence of body covering with smooth cycloid and ctenoid scales, having a gill covering called operculum, and the skeleton whichnis made up of true bone instead of cartilage. The particular characters which make it quite different from the remaining other bony fishes are that it is the fish which is more or less similar to the horse. Its snout is very much similar  to the appearance of a horse. and it always lives in the sea. So it is known as sea horse. The other peculiar character of this fish is the swimming method of this fish. It has the capacity to swim vertically. i.e. up and down. Other bony fishes use to swim horizontally but this fish  swims vertically , up and downward movement. Another important character of sea horse is that it is adapted to hold the twigs  and so it is adapted to resemble with the twigs of the branches of the tree. Its tail is prehensile. So, it has become the peculiar fish of marine habitat.