Sentences with phrase «pugheaded pipefish»

Search beneath the waves of Nantucket Sound for fascinating marine life including dogfish sharks, black sea bass, scup, spider crabs, squid, calico crabs, pipefish, and glowing comb jellyfish.

Male sea horses have been lauded as the gallant «Mr. Moms» of the animal world, and pipefish, their close relatives, are devoted fathers too.

At Texas A&M, researcher Kimberly Paczolt mated Gulf pipefish in multiple trials.

The father pipefish might do this by transferring more nutrients to broods mothered by attractive females and allowing less desirable broods to languish.

From male pipefish pregnancies to single - father frogs, evolution has produced some truly doting dads — and made the job surprisingly rewarding

Biologist Sam Van Wassenbergh at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and colleagues created mathematical models based on the body shape of seahorses and their straight - bodied cousins, pipefish.

Pipefish, in contrast, can not strike out so far and must settle for closer prey.

Pipefish may not be the only fathers that help build their offspring's immune system.

And in some animals like seahorses and pipefish, it's the males that get pregnant.

No wonder many of the young children who visit the sea horses and their close cousins, sea dragons and pipefish, at the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas (www.auduboninstitute.org) in New Orleans imagine they have entered a magical world.

Male Gulf pipefish are left holding the babies: they get pregnant and rear offspring in their bodies.

In these cases, females must compete for access to available mates, and indeed, researchers have found secondary sex traits, such as brightly colored ornamentation, evolving in female pipefish instead of males.

A team of researchers in the United States and Sweden sampled a population of broad - nosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle) at the beginning of the breeding season in shallow eelgrass beds in Kyllaj, Gotland, Sweden.

At NIMBioS, Flanagan is extending the research by exploring the role that genetics plays in complex systems in species like pipefish.

Previous studies have also found that large female pipefish, which are able to transfer more eggs to the male's pouch, are more attractive to the males.

But, in new study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, researchers found that the size of male pipefish matters too.

But in some species, the sex roles are reversed and males carry the brood, as in the case of pipefish and other members of the Syngnathus family like the seahorse.

«Male pipefish pregnancy: It's complicated.»

When pipefish are sick, they swim towards cooler water to get better.

I ask everyone what their favorite fish is, and I always hope they'll say the ghost pipefish.

Hung in this void like a small constellation, the ghost pipefish, impossible.

It's there, among striated frogfish, red handfish, and ghost pipefish that she strikes up a friendship with an old man that turns out to have grave consequences for her small family, especially weary, edgy Sheri.

Fish Feeding Time: Get close to crabs and see flounder, perch and pipefish.

We are like teams of explores heading out into the night giddy with anticipation of what discoveries we may find like the hard to find Halimeda Ghost Pipefish.

Enjoy two dives with our expert guides, the USAT Liberty wreck is a must but if you want to look for ghost pipefish or mantis shrimp try Seraya Secrets or Coral Garden.

The dive sites are home to a huge variety of tropical fish, from charismatic little critters like seahorses and ghost pipefish, through shoaling fish like fusiliers and sweetlips up to larger creatures including turtles and reef sharks, bumphead parrotfish and barracuda.

On the reef side of the wreck also had lot of cool little encounters like juvenile sweetlip, mantis shrimp, ornate ghost pipefish and scorpion fish.

This week in Lembeh we're having a Ghost Pipefish bonanza!

Expect to see a lot of smaller fish such as anemone fish, pipefish, and gobies.

The marine life in Belongas is second to none and can range from serious pelagics (mantas, whale sharks, mola's, tunas, barracudas, blur marlin, eagle ray's) through to ornate critters (nudibranch, harlequin shrimps, ghost pipefish, frog fish, hairy octopus and much much more).

Amed's House Reef is teeming with life at the moment: we've been spotting families of ornate ghost pipefish regularly, and a few days ago, this brightly colored Rhinopias (weedy scorpion fish) made his home here (thanks Nina Banks for the picture).

Boasting a vast high - rise coral skyline, at this site you will also be able to see hundreds of pipefish, seahorses, barracudas, ribbon eels and triggerfish!

It has also dropped a bit in temperature, we have averaged at 29 but with all the thermoclines we have been getting 28 and with this we have been spotting a lot more ornate ghost pipefish hiding around the feather stars on various dive sites.

This are is great for finding macro life with seahorses, ghost pipefish, frogfish, crabs, shrimps and loads of nudibranch.

The muck diving extravaganza was rounded out by a pygmy seahorse; ornate ghost pipefish; critters and crustaceans of all kinds.

You'll get the chance to see pipefish, razorfish, and the weirdly wonderful devil scorpionfish.

As it turns out, a whole generation of Banded Pipefish was spared!

Lembeh's Divesite Police Pier is known for its plethora of Pipefish (alongside it's spawning Mandarinfish and fantastic Frogfish population).

This week one of the Banded Pipefish found itself in a slightly awkward situation when it got a bit to close to a hungry Ribbon Eel.

Here is some info about the rarity from Wikipedia: «Halimeda ghost pipefish, Solenostomus halimeda, is a species of false pipefishes belonging to the family Solenostomidae.

This week's spotlight is on the Network Pipefish of Lembeh.

Divesites like our house reef and Ghost Bay provide top - class muck diving, with mimic octopus, ghost pipefish and more.

Divers can discover anything from small finds such as anemonefish, pipefish and shrimp / goby pairs to turtles, rays, groupers, Maori wrasse and several species of shark, including reefs, white tips and bronze whalers.

Lembeh is home to many species of Pipefish, all beautiful and interesting in their own way.

Just minutes from the resort, there is a shallow site where mandarin fish stage their evening courtship rituals, and night dives provide a chance to find leaf fish, ghost pipefish, and many other unique creatures.

THIS WEEK IN LEMBEH... Lots of specialty courses on the go and we're seeing some great critters in the process... Harlequin Shrimp, Mimic Octopus, Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Giant; Painted and Shaggy Frogfish, Velvet Ghost Pipefish, Hairy Octopus, Coconut Octopus galore, Ambon Scorpionfish, plus Bobbit Worms, Stargazers and Starry Night Octopus on the night dives Find...

They could go on the dive site Jetty and spot lots of critters such like frogfishes, gurnard lionfishes or ghost pipefishes.

Macro diving enthusiasts will also have a fine time with nudibranchs, mantis shrimps, harlequin ghost pipefish, scorpion fish, and mandarin fish all calling this place home.

The Halimeda ghost pipefish was our favourite fish in Bunaken this week.

We have also been seeing Leaf Scorpion fish, Candy & Boxer crabs, Tiger & Harlequin Shrimps, Pontohi & Denise's Pygmy Seahorses, Halimeda Ghost pipefish,...