#Syngnathidae

[marinememes]

Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Pipefish

Olive’s wet beast fact: You’re probably thinking that these worm-on-a-string lookin ass creatures look like straightened seahorses. That’s bc they are part of the Syngnathidae family with Seahorses and Sea Dragons. Funky!

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

[herpsandbirds]

dragons are real! they're just aquatic and live among the fishes, i saw some at an aquarium back when i was on vacation :]

(you know what i'm talking about right i'm not trying to request false creature i just think its cool)

Yes, yes, there are 3 species of sea dragons...

Leafy Seadragon (Phycodurus eques), family Syngnathidae, order Syngnathiformes, found off the Southern and Western coasts of Australia

photographs by Dave Fleetham & James Rosendale

Common Seadragon or Weedy Seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), family Syngnathidae, order Syngnathiformes, found along the southern coast of Australia

photograph by John Sear

Ruby Seadragons (Phyllopteryx dewysea), family Syngnathidae, order Syngnathiformes, found off the coast of western Australia

photographs by Zoe Della Vedova

[snototter]

A common seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) in Botany Bay, NSW, Australia

by John Turnbull

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

In what kind of fish does the male get pregnant and give birth? That's right: it's the pipefish! Just like their more famous seahorse relatives, females lay their eggs into the males' brood pouch, where they are fertilized. Fully developed young hatch about two weeks later, at which point they are fully independent and may even become food for their parents.

(Image: A Gulf Pipefish (Stigmatopora narinosa) by Graham Short)

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[minneral]

greater pipefish affirmations ✨

[pine-sawyer]

leafy seadragon 🐉🥬

[gessner-aldrovandi-et-amici]

Seahorse, seadragon, and pipefish from Marcus Elesier Bloch’s Ichthyologie ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons. Berlin 1796.

Source: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library (online via Biodiversity Heritage Library: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/26748).

[puphoods]

*remembers sea dragons exist*

[a-book-of-creatures]

“Entelurus aequoreus are a poor food source for seabirds such as the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica.”

Still looks like an omen to build a city though.

Photography by Rebecca Nason. Quote from Goncalves, I. B. et al. (2017) Phylogeography of the snake pipefish, Entelurus aequoreus (Family: Syngnathidae) in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, XX, 1–14.

[lowcountry-gothic]

Ocean Biodiversity Print Series, by Zoe Keller:

Octopodes

Medusozoa

Syngnathidae

Deep Sea

Nudibranchia

Sharks of the World

[marinememes]

why are pipefish so ugly

YOU MADE HIM CRY. TAKE IT BACK!!!

[herpsandbirds]

Bay Pipefish (Syngnathus californiensis), family Syngnathidae, order Syngnathiformes, found in ell grass beds along the Western Coast of North America, from Alaska to Baja California, Mexico

photograph via: California Academy of Sciences

[snototter]

A common seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus) against the kelp in Manly, Sydney, Australia.

by John Turnbull

[minneral]

had a sudden burst of fondness for pipefish sea horses and sea dragons, what a cool group of fish! this video has great music for a delightful little glimpse at pipefish life