The Pygmy Seahorse, also known as the little or dwarf seahorse, is a tiny creature in Southeast Asia's Coral Triangle. Its body measures less than an inch, roughly the size of a paperclip. The seahorse's body is covered with rounded bumps called tubercles, which mimic the color and shape of the coral polyps around it.
Marine biologists stumbled upon this camouflaging ability while examining its host coral in a lab. It often wraps itself around the gorgonian corals Muricella plectana and Muricella paraplectana.
Other species known as pygmies are the pygmy thorny seahorse, the Sodwana pygmy seahorse, and the Pontoh′s pygmy seahorse.