Let's Talk Body Parts!
- - Seahorses have an external skeleton composed of interlocking bony plates.
- - This skeleton is worn on the outside of an internal skeleton.
- - Where the plates join, there are ridged trunk and tail segments or body rings called ''dermal cirri''.
- - The number of body rings helps to classify (or name) the different types of seahorses.
- - The seahorse has a crown or ''coronet'' atop its head.
- - The eyes of a seahorse are able to turn separately and can look in two different directions at the same time.
- - The seahose propels itself by vibrating small, nearly invisible ''rays'' in a dorsal, anal and 2 pectoral fins.
- - Seahoses do NOT have a stomach and use only a simple alimentary canal.
- - This canal can cause the seahorse to have severe gas pains in its head and pouch!
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