
Seen at Seahorse Hotel
White's Seahorse - Hippocampus whitei is endemic to Australia and listed as Endangered under IUCN.
Conservation works at certain dive sites including installing artificial reefs that encourage growth of sea sponges that this Seahorses like to hang out at, and this section of the dive site is called Seahorse Hotel!

"Hippocampus whitei" is a species of marine fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is thought to be endemic to the Southwest Pacific, from Sydney, New South Wales and southern Queensland to the Solomon Islands. It lives in shallow, inshore habitats, both natural and anthropogenic.