Hippocampus

This is the Hippocampus is a sea- horse from Greek and Phoenician mythology. It is described as in this picture a sea-horse with two front legs and coiling long flippers.
Th e Hippocampus is Poseidon's own horse and in Roman mythology(where Poseidon is Neptune) is pulled by the hippocampus on a chariot.

The hippocampus is often called hippocamp. The hippocamp was often decorated on Roman structures and baths. The Hippocampus was worshiped near the coast and also far inland. This is so because the Greek thought that the sea water was the origin of the springs not the rains. They thought that sea water oozed backwards through underground caverns and came out through the springs, filtered.