| Do pipefish and seahorse males have complete confidence of paternity, as might be expected given their involved parental care? |
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| We managed to get peeks of banded pipefish, and a peacock flounder at the aptly named Blue Ridge. |
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| Towards the centre of the pier pipefish, mussels galore, conger and common eels, ballan wrasse and cuttlefish lurked. |
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| This approach has been successfully used in a sex-role reversed population of the broad-nosed pipefish, Syngnathus typhle. |
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| Andersson says similar evolutionary pressures help to explain the sexual antics of the pipefish, a close relative of the sea horse. |
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| Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish. |
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| But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish. |
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| Their big attractions are frogfish, ghost pipefish and a shoal of batfish. |
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| So I used the last dive of the day to shoot several reef scenes of crinoids sitting among soft corals and gorgonians, and a pair of yellow ghost pipefish. |
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| Sangeang's reefs host a rare variety of pygmy seahorses, as well as frogfish, ghost pipefish, flatworms and of course, nudibranchs. |
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| Vast underwater meadows of sea-grass skirt the coasts of southern Europe, serving as nurseries for pipefish and seahorses. |
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| In sea horses and pipefish the female deposits her eggs in a ventral brood pouch of the male, and the embryos develop there. |
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| Like females of many species, male pipefish are choosy about their mating partners, preferring bigger females. |
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| It has really become famous for recently due to numbers of unusual critters such as ghost pipefish, Harlequin shrimp, and tigertailed seahorses. |
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| The behaviors that benefit your average female wasp are different from those that benefit the average male wasp, and the same holds for bluebirds or pipefish. |
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| Lobster creeling is among the threats to this area of red seaweed and hornwrack, home to pipefish and anglerfish. |
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| The pouch of a male pipefish was long thought to be a passive incubator in which embryos could develop safely while feasting on yolky nutrients the mother had supplied. |
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| Known as the soft coral capital, Fiji dazzles everyone with its bright corals and huge sea fans surrounded by clownfish, ornate ghost pipefish and nudibranchs. |
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| Other unique fish found in the river include the northern pipefish, the lined seahorse, and the northern puffer. |
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| A giant stride from the dive centre, the house reef is teeming with macro life, including ghost pipefish, seahorses and psychedelic nudibranchs. |
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| Syngnathus and Calamostoma, pipefish genera that have a close relationship to true sea horses, have been found in rocks from both the Paleogene and Neogene periods. |
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| European bitterlings deposit their eggs in a mussel by means of the ovipositor, and female pipefish and sea horses deposit them in the brood pouch of a male. |
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| In the Black Sea, their diet contains sprats, anchovies, and pipefish. |
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