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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.
Phyllopteryx is a genus of small fishes, commonly called seadragons, in the family Syngnathidae that are found along the western and southern coasts of Australia. Since the 19th century, the weedy or common seadragon was the only known species, until the description of the ruby seadragon in 2015.
Additionally, the new species has a forward pointing pair of dorsal spines in contrast to the backwards facing pair in leafy and weedy seadragons. [2] Ruby seadragons possess enlarged bony spines to which leafy appendages would attach in weedy and leafy seadragons, but the appendages themselves are absent.
A third and new species of seadragon has been discovered. Named the ruby seadragon, it joins its two known counterparts, leafy and weedy, in a group characterized by seahorse-like bodies and ...
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 ]
Day 6 (By Cohn) Breakfast (220 calories) 1/2 cup of non-fat Greek yogurt. 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries. 1/2 cup of unsweetened almond milk. 1 tbsp. of chia seeds
The leafy sea dragon is camouflaged to look like floating seaweed. By locomotion. A number of species jump while swimming near the surface, skimming the water. Other ...