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New Species of Pygmy Seahorse Discovered: Hippocampus japapigu
Sci-News.com ^
| Aug 27, 2018
| Natali Anderson
Posted on 08/29/2018 6:24:28 AM PDT by ETL
Seahorses are a group (genus Hippocampus) of small fish belonging to the family Syngnathidae, which also includes pipefish and sea dragons.
These creatures are named for the shape of their head, which looks like the head of a horse.
They are found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world.
Unlike most other fish, seahorses are monogamous and mate for life.
Pygmy seahorses of the genus Hippocampus are diminutive in size (0.5-1 inch, or 1.36-2.6 cm, long).
They live in close association with octocorals, colonial hydrozoans, bryozoans, seagrass and algae.
They are morphologically distinct from the more numerous and larger species (0.9-14 inches, or 2.4-35 cm) of seahorses in possessing a single rather than paired gill openings and trunk brooding of their young.
Named Hippocampus japapigu, the newly-discovered species measures between 0.55 and 0.62 inches (1.4-1.6 cm) in length.
This pygmy seahorse was found by Dr. Graham Short from the California Academy of Sciences and his colleagues from the Pipefish Stickleback Specialist Group, the Kagoshima University Museum and the Port Stephens Fisheries Institute.
“Hippocampus japapigu is described based on three specimens collected from a mixed soft coral and algae reef at 36 feet (11 m) depth at Hachijo-jima Island, Izu Islands, Japan,” the researchers said.
Hippocampus japapigu occurs throughout subtropical southeast Japan and represents the fifth species of pygmy seahorse recorded in the country’s waters, according to the team.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: algae; bryozoans; colonialhydrozoans; cryptobiology; godsgravesglyphs; hippocampus; japan; japapigu; octocorals; seagrass; seahorse; seahorses; syngnathidae
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ETL
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To: Phillyred
i have been raising pygmy seahorses for 70 years. They are easy to keep and wonderfully prolific.
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08/29/2018 7:26:07 AM PDT
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Louis Foxwell
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trisham
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trisham
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08/29/2018 12:03:32 PM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
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Amazing world we live in.
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08/29/2018 1:30:40 PM PDT
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I adore seahorse - they are my classroom mascot. How do you keep your little guys fed?
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Zirondelle
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Thanks fieldmarshaldj. They require really, really small saddles when used for water polo.
I wonder if there's such a thing as a pygmy pig?
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
That is an itty bitty thing.
It’d be good for pulling ore carts in the coral mines, though.
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Grimmy
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To: SunkenCiv
Dunno, but there are jumbo shrimp...
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08/30/2018 12:46:00 AM PDT
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null and void
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I've heard they're hard to keep alive in tanks.
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LOL! Love the innocence of those ads.
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