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Ornate Ghostpipefish

Reference

IB1311

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Ghost Pipefishes - SOLENOSTOMIDAE

Common Name

Ornate Ghostpipefish

Scientific Name

Solenostomus paradoxus

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

Female Ghostpipefishes hold their ventral fins together like cupped hands to form a brood pouch in which their eggs are incubated.
These fishes are beautifully patterned with camouflaging dermal appendages.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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