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Pygmy Seahorse

Reference

IB1339

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Pipefishes/Seahorses - SYNGNATHIDAE

Common Name

Pygmy Seahorse

Scientific Name

Hippocampus bargibanti

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Pygmy Seahorses that live amongst gorgonian corals, for example, have the same colouring and lumpy protuberances as the coral.
All male Seahorses incubate the eggs until they hatch, the young emerging as fully developed miniature Seahorses.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

 

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