Why don't scientists call the male seahorse a female seahorse, since the "male" seahorse has the baby seahorses?

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The female produces the eggs, which the male fertilizes, as usual with M & F. The male apparently hatches them after fertilization (if memory serves; I’m not looking this up, since you could do that as easily as I could).

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