digestive system of sea horse
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The Lined Seahorse has a very basic digestive system.
1. They have no teeth. They eat by sucking prey through their snout into their mouth and swallowing it whole. Lined seahorse eat live food including plankton, fish larvae, briny shrimp and small crustaceans such as copepods.
2. The lined seahorse has little to no stomach and relies on its intestines to absorb nutrients from digested food.
3. Their liver which includes pancreatic tissue produces bile to aid in digestion.
4. Its kidney filters waste.
Because digestion is so fast, they have little time to absorb nutrients before the food is eliminated, therefore lined seahorse have to eat constantly to survive. A lined seahorse can eat up to 3000 brine shrimp a day
1. They have no teeth. They eat by sucking prey through their snout into their mouth and swallowing it whole. Lined seahorse eat live food including plankton, fish larvae, briny shrimp and small crustaceans such as copepods.
2. The lined seahorse has little to no stomach and relies on its intestines to absorb nutrients from digested food.
3. Their liver which includes pancreatic tissue produces bile to aid in digestion.
4. Its kidney filters waste.
Because digestion is so fast, they have little time to absorb nutrients before the food is eliminated, therefore lined seahorse have to eat constantly to survive. A lined seahorse can eat up to 3000 brine shrimp a day
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