Underwater Animals from The Little Mermaid

Disneyland

"We got no troubles, life is the bubbles," sing Sebastian and Co. as Flounder and friends give a bubbly performance to en even bubblier Ariel.

This postcard features Ariel, Sebastian the crab, seahorses, fish and snails.  

Leafy Sea Dragon

Leafy Sea Dragon at the Georgia Aquarium
2007

The Fish Head Ball

The Pier Aquarium's 15th Annual
-Fish Head Ball-

Atlantis Reigns Again!

Rising from the depths of the sea, the lost city of Atlantis and King Neptune reign supreme, if only for one night, to benefit The Pier Aquarium's Education Programs
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008
St. Pete Beach, Florida

Legend of the Sea Horse

The Legend of the Sea Horse

With a head shaped like a tiny prancing horse, in rigid bony plates and thorny spikes and a tail that curls like a snake, there is little about the sea horse to suggest that he really is a fish.  It swims upright with the aid of a single back fin.  With its tail curled around sea weed to keep from being swept away, it looks like a small dragon from some fairy tale.

One of the most curious agreements known to marine biologists is that between male and female.  The female puts her eggs into the male's front vest pocket, which resembles a kangaroo's pouch, so that the father instead of the mother carries the eggs about until they are hatched.

They eat only live sea life such as plankton and the eggs of other sea creatures, smaller than themselves.  They are found in large numbers along Florida's seacoast.
2009

Legend of the Sea Horse

The Legend of the Seahorse

Even among the many strange creatures of the ocean, the Sea Horse is one of nature's more unusual fish.  It has a head shaped like a tiny horse, a body covered in rigid, bony plates and a snake-like tail that is used to grasp seaweed and coral.  The Sea Horse might also be mistaken for a small dragon from a child's fairy tale.

Sea Horses are commonly seen on coral reefs in the warm coastal waters of Florida, where they eat plankton and the eggs of other fish.

They range in size from 6 to 12 inches, swim upright with the aid of a single dorsal fin and come in a wide variety of colors.

The female Sea Horse places her eggs in the male's kangaroo-like chest pouch, where they are fertilized and are born after a gestation period of 4-6 week.

These wondrous tiny creatures live for about four years.
2009

Legend of the Sea Horse

The Legend of the Sea Horse

With a head shaped like a tiny prancing horse, in rigid bony plates and thorny spikes and a tail that curls like a snake, there is little about the sea horse to suggest that he really is a fish.  It swims upright with the aid of a single back fin.  With its tail curled around sea weed to keep from being swept away, it looks like a small dragon from some fairy tale.

One of the most curious agreements known to marine biologists is that between male and female.  The female puts her eggs into the male's front vest pocket, which resembles a kangaroo's pouch, so that the father instead of the mother carries the eggs about until they are hatched. They eat only live sea life such as plankton and the eggs of other sea creatures, smaller than themselves.  They are found in large numbers along Florida's seacoast.

Florida
2010

Australian Art: Leafy Sea Dragon

Watercolours on paper

'Leafy Sea Dragon' from William Buleow Gould's Sketch book of Fishes in Macquarie Harbour c 1832

bought at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, Sydney in 2012

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The leafy seadragon is a marine fish in the family Syngnathidae, which also includes the seahorses. It is found along the southern and western coasts of Australia.

The name is derived from the appearance, with long leaf-like protrusions coming from all over the body. These protrusions are not used for propulsion; they serve only as camouflage.

Seahorse in Cozumel, Mexico

Cozumel Marine Creatures
Seahorse

Los caballitos de mar son dificiles pero no inposibles de encontrar en los arrecifes de Cozumel.
The seahorses are difficult but not impossible to find in Cozumel Island reefs.
2010

Sea Horse, Marineland of the Pacific

The Amazing Sea Horse
Marineland of the Pacific

"Cute" is the word by which visitors to the Oceanarium Jewel tanks most often describe these sea animals, which usually propel themselves through the water standing upright.  Before birth, sea horse babies are carried by their papa in a pouch below his abdomen.

Geo. E. Watson, Color Photographer

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Marineland of the Pacific was a public oceanarium and tourist attraction located in Los Angeles County, California. It was also known as Hanna-Barbera's Marineland during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Marineland operated from 1954 until 1987, when it was purchased by the owners of SeaWorld, San Diego. The new owners moved the popular killer whales and other animals to their San Diego facility and abruptly closed down Marineland.

Seahorses in 3D

Seahorse (Hippocampus)
when you tilt the postcard the tail goes from straight to curled - also has great 3D effects
2011

Sea Dragon

Shedd Aquarium
Chicago, Illinois

Fabulous and rare, sea dragons are fantasies come to life.  Their domain is off the coast of Southern Australia, where cool kelp forests and colorful sponge gardens grow on rocky underwater cliffs.
2011

Seahorses

Shedd Aquarium
Chicago, Illinois

Longsnout Seahorse
There are approximately 35 known species of seahorses, varying in size from less than an inch long to nearly a foot long. Their diet mainly consists of shrimp, and they must swallow their food whole, since they have no teeth.  Seahorse reproduction is quite unique: The male gives birth to the young.

Photographer: Edward G. Lines Jr.
2011