Denise's pygmy seahorse
Hippocampus denise
Sighting evidence at Meno Wall, Gili Islands
Photo: Mike Krampf · CC BY-NC
Denise's pygmy seahorse reaches only 2.4 cm and lives exclusively on Muricella sea fans, its skin tubercles matching the fan's polyp texture so precisely that experienced guides use a pointer to indicate their position. On Meno Wall several fan colonies at 28 m to 35 m host resident individuals, making this one of the more reliable pygmy seahorse sites in Lombok Strait without a boat crossing to deeper Indo-Pacific reefs.
Evidence at this site
0 records within 25 km
Confidence: low