Denise’s pygmy seahorse

• Hippocampus Denise or the yellow pygmy seahorse

The Denise’s pygmy seahorse is a seahorse of the family Syngnathidae, as well as the smallest seahorse species in the world that has ever existed.

They only grow to be about 16 mm and can be found in the western Pacific, including Indonesia, Vanuatu, Palau, Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and Micronesia.

They usually hide in fields of gorgonians, using their skills in adaptive camouflage (which means that they change their colors to match that of the surrounding gorgonians).