Why is Horsea known as the "Dragon Pokemon"?

i talking about horsea, if you see on his pokédex, pokédex says “Dragon Pokémon” that’s not a dragon that’s a seahorse

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Its species name might be a reference to leafy sea dragons, or seahorses turning into dragons after a century in Japanese mythology.

Tattu is a corruption of 竜 tatsu (dragon), which is part of the common name of a seahorse in Japanese: 竜の落し子 tatsu-no-otoshigo (“illegitimate child of a dragon”).

Tattu is the Japanese name for Horsea

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The Crabby Nookclaims that chinese cultures believe the Seahorse to be a type of seadragon.However, they offer no sources, so I can’t really believe that.

This sitecorroborates Meta Ridley’s answer:

According to some legends a seahorse is a baby dragon, and thusseahorses are often tied to dragons. Like Dinosaurs Are Dragons, thisis largely an Eastern culture trope: most notably, the Japanese wordfor seahorse, “tatsu-no-otoshigo”, literally means “dragon’s …[illegitimate]…child.”

However, none of this really matters. I could find no proof of anything. This “legend” the Crabby Nook mentions was highly elusive. The only thing on Chinese seahorses I could find was their use as powerful medicine, and Japanese seahorses are definitely not dragons.

It seems to me that this leaves one possibility.

Sea dragonsare very much related toSeahorses. They are in the same family, and have similar attributes. They do have one notable difference, however. Seahorses are highly mobile, while Sea Dragons just drift around.

That meansHorseais definitely a Seahorse, not a Sea Dragon.

If attacked by a larger enemy, it quickly swims to safety by adeptlycontrolling its dorsal fin.

Based on this, I think Game Freak created a compilation Pokemon.Horsea isn’t based off only one thing.

But does it really matter? It makes for a pretty sweet Pokemon.

Personally, I’m O.K. with them getting it just a little wrong.

Well you see here *lol this gonna be terrible feel free to convert to comment.lol Well you see here in gen one there were basically 5 canidates seadra horsea dragonite dratini dragonair all dratini evolutions were better seadra was also clearly better so I beleive they did it for the lolz ah yes the lols Pokemon can have fun to! (Seriously I thought about it it’s the only thing that makes sense.