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title: "Long-snouted seahorse"
description: "Hippocampus guttulatus — Vissen. Hippocampus guttulatus, commonly known as the long-snouted seahorse and in Great Britain as the spiny seahorse, is a marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/long-snouted-seahorse
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Long-snouted seahorse

> Hippocampus guttulatus — Vissen. Hippocampus guttulatus, commonly known as the long-snouted seahorse and in Great Britain as the spiny seahorse, is a marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae.

- Scientific name: *Hippocampus guttulatus*
- Category: `fish` (Vissen)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 1504
- Wikidata: [Q1071955](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071955)
- iNaturalist taxon: [102821](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/102821)

## Names

- en: Long-snouted Seahorse
- de: Langschnäuziges Seepferdchen
- es: Caballito del mar trompudo
- fr: Hippocampe moucheté
- nl: Long-snouted seahorse
- pl: Pławikonik sargassowy

## Countries with the most observations

FR (485), ES (279), HR (152), IT (95), GR (86), PT (77), TR (39), UA (25), RO (21), GB (18), MT (13), BG (11)

## Summary

Hippocampus guttulatus, commonly known as the long-snouted seahorse and in Great Britain as the spiny seahorse, is a marine fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae. It is native to the northeast Atlantic, including the Mediterranean.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-snouted_seahorse

## Photo

![Long-snouted seahorse](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/long-snouted-seahorse/medium.jpg)

Photo: Yehor Yatsiuk · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/48429194

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/long-snouted-seahorse?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).