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Updated: 5 Aug 2006

Pipefish and Sea Horses

The first time I became really aware of these delightful little things as a group was when I saw the wonderful display at the New Orleans Aquarium.

The species found around the New Zealand coast is Hippocampus abdominalis, which grows to about 15 cm, is usually greenish grey, mottled with brown, and prefers seaweed covered rocks in shallow water.

Pipefish

• Docslaw Seaworld

  Ghost Pipefish

  Ghost pipefish, various Solenostromus species, are beautiful and wierd. Have a look at some of the following (but don't take the species identifications too seriously):

  • Michael Law web site
  • Diving for Images web site
  • Underwater Photos web site
  • Fish-Id web site
  • Seahorse.org web site (you can believe the identifications at this site, though the photos aren't so good)

Seahorses

• Australian Museum Online – White's Seahorse
• Docslaw Seaworld
• SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Bytes
• Marine biologist Amanda Vincent spent several years studying some of the world´s most exotic species, seahorses. Now she has made seahorses the emblem of a wide-ranging environmental campaign.

  Sea Dragons

  The sea dragons – leafy (Phycodurus eques) and weedy (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) varieties – come from Australia.  For more information visit:

  • Australian Museum Online – Seadragons
  • Melbourne Aquarium - Leafy Seadragon
  • Melbourne Aquarium - Weedy Seadragon
  • Dive Gallery web site - Leafy Seadragon
  • Dive Gallery web site - Weedy Seadragon
  • Oceanwide Images web site
  • Australian National Dragon Search web site
  • Seahorse.org web site

   

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