#hippocampus mythology

[nim-lock]

seahorse

[spellboii]

Mermay 2023

[greyeisacreativecolor]

The hippocampus is one of the only remaining vestiges of my "same meat" era. I just prefer it being entirely mammal instead of part mammal part fish.

[marysmirages]

Nereid and Hippocampus (2025)

[nilo05]

horses

[littlepaperforest]

A very cute mythical horse commission I had the privilege of working on earlier this year. :’) Including the nightmare, thestral, kelpie, unicorn, pegasus and hippocampus. ♡

(((My commissions are currently closed, unless it’s for Pokemon then maybe)))

[spacerockband]

the hippocampus

[athenepromachos]

The Lord Poseidon 🦈🐙🦀🦞🦐🦑🐠🐟🐬🏛🏺

[vcreatures]

The Hippocampus is a highly dimorphic aquatic steed found across temperate and tropical oceans.

While primarily herbivorous, feeding primarily on aquatic plants, the Hippocampus is not adverse to also feeding on hard shelled mollusks and other invertebrates, especially during mating season.

The Hippocampus lives in small family herds, consisting of two stallions and their respective mates. However it is a dominant female that actually maintains the power position in the heard. Males and females are nearly identical however males are larger and posses a club like forearm where females have fins. These modified arms are a formidable and dangerous weapon and are used in defense of the heard. They are capable of such force to completely incapacitate predators.

During mating season stallions will mate and affix the eggs of his brood to his tail. He will be the sole caretaker during this time. The dominant female will be the first and typically mates during the height of spring for optimal feeding for her offspring.

[ashtondawnpng]

A piece for @midnightleafsketches‘s Submerged zine! :3 I had a lot of fun experimenting with this one!! I might actually print it out as a window cling for my shower doors tbh.. I’ll need to make a matching one though. 🤔

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

Fredrick & Aesop (Phantom Sail / Hippocampus) Moodboard

Requested by: Anon! <3

[inkwellfire]

[Image Description: A digital painting of two mythologocal Hippocampus as part of a tidal wave, rearing. They are in a thunderstorm, looming large above a Greek style wooden ship, half submerged in water. End ID]

I listened to Ruthlessness from EPIC too many times.

[pickledart]

✨✨Hippocampi!! ✨✨

[thegothicalice]

I try to do at least one mythological sea creature for #MerMay and love how this sea-dragon insipired hippocampus turned out 🐎🐠

[magicae-est-realis]

A Hippocampus!

Waiting for the poll to finish (because I, idiot I am, accidentally set it for a week instead of a day) so I drew one of my favourite mythical creatures.

Hippocamp are generally pale, iridescent and brightly coloured. Curved fins instead of hooves, dorsal and chest fins for cutting through the water and agility.

Hippocamp each have unique brightly coloured iridescent tail fins- generally similar to a betta fish's tail, but other shapes and patterns have been recorded. They're for attracting mates and identifying pod members.

Hippocamp also have unique bioluminescent markings along their tails and body for signalling and communication.

Deep ocean hippocamp have more markings in more elaborate patterns, darker body colours and paler tails They're the largest of the species. River hippocamp are the smallest, the palest and have bodies the same colour as the river they live in with very few thin striped markings. Tails are generally the dullest of the species. Stillwater hippocamp are the most middle-sized and the bluest, uniformly with tails in cooler colours and markings in dotted patterns. Reef and tropical hippocamp are the second smallest, the most brightly coloured with splodged markings, and the greatest colour variation. Open ocean hippocamp are the second largest and have the dullest body colours with the darkest tails and many striped markings.

Hippocamp hybrids can occur, though they're generally open ocean hybrids as they can overlap territories with all but still water hippocamp, or (rarely) river/still water hybrids after flooding recedes and strands a hippocampus from its own pod with the other species.

[teaandspite]

Testing some new linocuts-in-progress