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A biennial Leafy Sea Dragon Festival is held within the boundaries of the District Council of Yankalilla in South Australia. It is a festival of the environment, arts and culture of the Fleurieu Peninsula, with the theme of celebrating the leafy seadragon. The inaugural festival in 2005 attracted over 7,000 participants including 4000 visitors.
A database of seadragon sightings, known as 'Dragon Search' has been established with support from the Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc., ('Dragon Search' arose as the logical progression of a similar project initiated by the MLSSA, which was the first community group or indeed organisation of any type to adopt the common seadragon's ...
Male seahorses have a specialized ventral brood pouch to carry the embryos, male sea dragons attach the eggs to their tails, and male pipefish may do either, depending on their species. [4] The most fundamental difference between the different lineages of the family Syngnathidae is the location of male brood pouch. [ 5 ]
This baby leafy sea dragon was only eight centimeters long. I set the camera as low to the sea bed as possible. and used two underwater flash guns to highlight the reflective parts of the animal ...
The female Cyphotilapia frontosa mouthbroods its fry. The fry can be seen looking out of her mouth. Seahorses: Seahorse males practice pouch-brooding similar to kangaroos. When seahorses mate, the female deposits her eggs into a special pouch on the male's belly. The pouch seals shut while he nurtures the developing eggs.
Courtship between male and female pipefish involves lengthy and complicated shows of display. For example, in Syngnathus typhle, copulation is always preceded by a ritualized dance by both sexes. The dance involves very conspicuous wriggling and shaking motions, especially in comparison to the species' otherwise extremely secretive lifestyle.
Weedy seadragons span the entire southern coast of Australia, from Western Australia to New South Wales and Tasmania; whereas leafy seadragons span a more restricted region from Western Australia to South Australia. Leafy seadragon have more elaborate appendages than the weedy seadragons. [2] Both species exhibit low genetic diversity.
Rising temperatures have caused a major spike in female sea turtle births along Florida’s coast, PEOPLE reports. According to researchers, The post Record heat results in birth of only female ...