Talk:Dwarf seahorse

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I doubt the Guinness World Records 2009 statement is correct that dwarf seahorse swim at a top speed of 0.4mm per second. When I watch the YouTube video "Hippocampus zosterae mating dance" by user "Seahorse Breeder" between 11 seconds and 16 seconds after start, I observe that a male dwarf seahorse moves the length of a seahorse in 5 seconds. This is a speed of about 4 mm per second when the seahorse is 20 mm long, or about 15 m per hour.

An article in PuneMirror writes that the speed of a dwarf seahorse is 0.01 mph: Slowest Fish in the World. 0.01 mph are about 16.1 m per hour or 4.5 mm per second. This corresponds to the velocity I derive from the YouTube video.

I was unable to get the 2009 Guinness World Records book to verify which source is named there. I have also not found any other reliable source regarding the top speed of dwarf seahorses. All articles I found cite Guinness World Records 2009.

I think it is quite likely that a decimal error by a factor of 10 occurred and was printed in Guinness World Records 2009.

I propose to delete the statement about the maximum speed of 1.5 m per hour because there are reasonable doubts and no second independent source is available for this. Malanoqa (talk) 09:17, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]