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Hippocampus bargibanti, also known as Bargibant's seahorse or the pygmy seahorse, is a seahorse of the family Syngnathidae found in the central Indo-Pacific area. [3]This pygmy seahorse is tiny—usually less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) in size—and lives exclusively on gorgonian sea-fans, as its coloration and physical features expertly mimic the coral for camouflage. [4]
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The first pygmy seahorse known to science was Hippocampus bargibanti. At least six more species were named after 2000. The first species discovered lives exclusively on fan corals and matches their colour and appearance. So effective is pygmy seahorse camouflage that it was discovered only when a host gorgonian was being examined in a laboratory.
Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley, 1970 (pygmy seahorse) Hippocampus breviceps Peters, 1869 (short-headed seahorse) Hippocampus camelopardalis Bianconi, 1854 (giraffe seahorse) Hippocampus capensis Boulenger, 1900 (Knysna seahorse) Hippocampus casscsio Zhang, Qin, Wang & Lin, 2016 [65] (Beibu Bay seahorse) Hippocampus colemani Kuiter, 2003 ...
The subfamily Hippocampinae is named after the seahorse genus Hippocampus, which is derived from the Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippokampos), a compound of ἵππος, "horse" and κάμπος, "sea monster". The morphologically intermediate nature of pygmy pipehorses is reflected in the name "pipehorse", a combination of the first ...
An Iowa school is catching flak for having no “rizz.”. A teacher in a school district near the Nebraska border is being accused of banning the word short for charisma along with over two dozen ...
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The Horses of McBride is a Canadian drama television film, directed by Anne Wheeler and broadcast by CTV in 2012. [1] The film is based on the true story of a family in McBride , British Columbia , who rescued two horses that had been trapped by an avalanche in 2008.