#pipefish in art

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54 common fish of texas, part 9: gulf pipefish (Syngnathus scovilli), gag grouper (Mycteoperca microlepis)

[jue-jack]

i can finally post this! i was part of a 36 artist telephone game hosted by @bowelfly, and here's my part! pls check out the other artists on this post or this website

[bethdehart]

Mermay Day 8: Pipefish

stripey lil friend!

(For $3 a month you can see exclusive sketches, sneak peeks at upcoming adoptables, and behind the scenes content of my comic hallowed hijinks! https://ko-fi.com/bethdehart )

[spadefish]

A collection of fish from this month and last month... all of these but one are real!

Cod, Fairy shrimp, Glass Octopus, Frilled Shark, Tully Monster, and String Cheese Fish. :)

[cactibarber]

pipefish pride! pipefish pride!

new stickers to order here!

[ybkitten]

Have you noticed that this is a fish, and not a mime, and that only one of these belong in a box?

[evilweasel-cosplay]

Friend came to me with a cool character idea and damn I'm happy with her!

She asked for a swan with an aquarium neck that had a moss ball, kelp, and a pipefish in it. She also wanted a color palette based off of my floral arrangements and she picked three for me to use. The pipefish is a hybrid between two species she really likes and I'm happy my years of marine biology studies and drawing worms was put to good use.

[sangu1vore]

hello tumblr this is my spongebob oc Piper Pipefish. ive finally reached peak autism

[manga-ranga]

Another long post on painting process, also siphonophore appreciation

Sketch and background

2. A lot of gesso/primer and yes, you can totally use it like a paint. The thing is that you can shape it to make interesting textures in your pic. But you need to be willing to put a lot on.

3. Body details! Line details! The next level of colour and details for your thing-a-ma-jig. If you want to keep the colours separate, make sure you wait for it to dry in between applications.

4. Glitter (coz I like glitter) and wash (acrylic + water)

5. Final details

6. done

I know the photos don't show it, but this painting has a lot of texture (bumpy bits) that catch the light in different ways when it is hung up.

As for the subject... something between a pipefish and a siphonophore.

From what I understand, and science side of tumblr feel free to correct me but siphonophores are colonial organisms. They are made up heaps of tiny little creatures to create one giant creature. So I wanted to capture all that life moving about this creature.

Painting is available on my redbubble store

[biblical-figures]

water things

[oh-sturg-art]

Day 8 of Fishuary!! IS THIS ALLOWED? @fish-daily DO PIPEFISH COUNT???

Prompt: Seahorse

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Okay I really hope this counts because pipefish are SO FUNNY.

This guy’s scientific name is dunckerocampus pessuliferus and nothing could be more fitting. What a guy! These goobers are close relatives of seahorses. They’re basically just… seahorses… but elongated. Right??? Anyways one of my coworkers drew a pipefish once for a work gallery and it was literally just a line and I can’t get the drawing out of my head.

We have a bunch of these guys at work, some of which being less than three inches long! They’re so small! They swim like noodles! I can’t believe this animal.

Much like their seahorse cousins, these guys also have the males carrying the eggs! Females lay the eggs in their pouches and males hold onto them until they hatch.

[mrultra100]

Alright, if I can be real with you all, one of the animals that I want to see the most show up in Prehistoric Planet season 2 is Ocepechelon. I’m not sure if any of y’all that don’t know aren’t ready for what this species looks like, but I’m very, very, VERY happy to show it off.

You folks might wanna strap in for a bit, but this is gonna be a doozy....

...What’s that? You people think this was some sort of ancient crocodile with a broken snout? Well, I really wouldn’t blame any of you, as not only were the scaly buggers extremely common back in Maastrichtian times, a good few species were found in this guy’s native range (the Ouled Abdoun Basin). However, something tells me that your folks AREN’T ready for what this guy really was.

Are you all ready?....

Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd.......

(Art made by Charlene Letenneur)

Yeah, that’s right; This thing was a frickin’ SEA TURTLE...with a SNOOT. Not only that, this guy was also one of the largest seas turtles that we know of. Even dwarfing the leatherbacks of today. Don’t believe me? Take a look and see how massive this absolute unit was.

While not as big as the largest specimens of Archelon, Ocepechelon was still a big boi, easily being alot bigger than the leatherback turtles of today’s oceans. With that in mind, you might think that this species fed on a similar diet to its relatives to get that big. Well, guess again! As if this Pingu-looking bastard wasn’t already full of surprises, it still has one MORE to give to the world. Guess what it was.

C’mon, guess. The clue should be obvious enough...

That’s right... Sometime during the history of life on our planet, there was a sea turtle that not only had the snoot of either a beaked whale or pipefish...it also fed in the SAME. EXACT. WAY as them. Evolution is one hell of a drug in terms of looks, but if it helps with a creature’s own survival, Mother Nature is allowed to trip balls as damn well as she pleases.

Now, with that said, I think I know just where in Season 2 would be perfect for this lovechild between a leatherback sea turtle and a beaked whale.

Not only did one of my own predictions came true (I.E., the baitball scene of my dreams), this presents a great opportunity for Ocepechelon to show up in the series. The following scenario presents itself as such.

(Art made by HodariNundu)

66 million years ago, in what would be the Ouled Abdoun Basin, the seas off of the north African coast were teeming with life, especially great big schools of fish. One such example would be a massive school of Enchodus. Huge schools of these prehistoric relatives of lancetfish would be a potential feast for massive ocean predators. Huge marine reptiles like Zarafasaura, along with large sharks like Squalicorax, would lead the chase, causing the baitball to be packed tighter and tighter together. It’s then where more and more predators join in for the great feast; Stratodus (A large, predatory fish with a long and flexible body), seagoing pterosaurs like Alcione and Tethydraco divebombing from the skies above to grab a beakful, a gharial-like mosasaur in the form of Gavialimimus, and other such predators, all working together to wear down the moving feast. And for any stray fish that somehow managed to escape the many jaws of the first few waves of arrivals, they’re suddenly sucked in by a large, darkish grey snout-like mouth. A lone Ocepechelon, accompanied by his entourage of small fish that stay by him for protection, has slowly swam into the feeding frenzy up above, picking off any stranglers that avoided the jaws of the other predators. The male turtle, as with many others of his kind, is cool with taking it slow and easy, being content with snacking on the few remaining stranglers that survived the previous waves of of hunters, all starting to get their fill as the baitball not only starts to get very small, but also starting to leave. As the other predators all leave the scene, the Ocepechelon is more than happy to suck up the rest of the Enchodus, leaving only but a few shimmering scales as he himself, along with his own school of fish, heads out into the big blue beyond.

That (frankly long) description is how I’d imagine how a segment featuring Ocepechelon would play out in Prehistoric Planet. Given how we finally got the teaser trailer for Season 2, it shouldn’t be long before we get more news on this batch of brand-new episodes. And who knows? Maybe out Pingu-snouted friend here will grace the world with his mere presence. I’m certainly bracing for it as we speak.

[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).

[alphynix]

Ghost pipefishes are close relatives of pipefish and seahorses, and today are represented by six different species found in shallow tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. But while this lineage is estimated to have originated around 70 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous, their fossil record is very sparse – only three fossil representatives are currently known from the entire Cenozoic.

Calamostoma lesiniforme is one of the oldest of these, dating to the early Eocene around 50-48 million years ago. Known from the Monte Bolca fossil beds in northern Italy, it lived in a warm shallow reef environment during a time when that region of Europe was covered by the western Tethys Ocean.

Up to about 9cm long (3.5"), it was already very similar in appearance to modern ghost pipefishes, with a long tubular snout, star-shaped bony plates in its skin, two dorsal fins, and fairly large pelvic fins that formed an egg-brooding pouch in females. It probably had the same sort of lifestyle as its modern relatives, floating pointing downwards and camouflaging itself among seagrasses, algae, and corals.

One specimen preserves a small amount of color patterning, showing hints of dark banding on the pelvic and tail fins. But since modern ghost pipefish can change their coloration to better mimic their surroundings, it's unclear whether these markings were common to all Calamostoma or were just part of this particular individual's camouflage.

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[spadefish]

More fishes!! This fish stream was a LOT of fun, holy shit. TWO of these fish are real and the rest are...... very obviously not real. In order: Windfish, Sea Angel, Stormfish, Pipefish, “fish that looks like a boot,” and Benjamin.

[typhlonectes]