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New Species of Pygmy Seahorse Discovered in Inidan Ocean:

In zoology news, a delightful discovery has rippled through animal science. A new species of pygmy seahorse has been discovered off the coast of South Africa. Named Hippocampus nalu, this tiny creature is the first known pygmy seahorse from the Indian Ocean. It is also the first recorded pygmy seahorse from the African continent. It was found amid a sandy coral reef environment in Sodwana Bay, at roughly 14 to 17 meters in depth. Hippocampus nalu belongs to Family Syngnathidae, which contains over 300 species of generally small fish. Members of this family tend to live in the temperate and tropical regions in estuaries, seagrass beds, and other shallow coastal environments in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans...