Sea horse

One morning we had vast quantities of sea-horses about the ship, which neighed exactly like any other horses.

Instead, it seems to be a unique case that ends in the tail of a hippocamp or seahorse, although with one fin now missing. Ultimately, the form might have been inspired by bent-leg vases produced in Greece.

As most authors mention the hippopotamus under the names of the sea-horse, or the sea-cow, he has sometimes been confounded with the latter, which inhabits only the northern seas.

The sea-horse teeth (so called) are the tusks of the hippopotamus.