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Pipehorse video from Fiji dive trip
11/16/10
Our friends just returned from a Fiji live-aboard trip. Their
dive masters (www.Naia.com.fj) edited this 5-minute video montage
from their dives.
The video is posted at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorBlFEdLoE&feature=player_embedded#!
<Mmm, oh yeah. Sammie's Gates housing/Sony combo... w/ Mo
as dive guide... I was on the Nai'a just a week or two
back>
Lots of wonderful sea life throughout...but in a very special cut
at 2:08 into the video, they have a long and up-close look at
what appears to be a pygmy Pipehorse. My best guess (and that is
all) is Acentronura australe based on the location (Fiji) and the
few visual cues.
<Mmm>
WetWebMedia and Fishbase.org don't have much information to
be more definite. (This one definitely doesn't show the head
structures of A. tentaculata as illustrated on fishbase.)
<Well... I took a dozen or so pix... have looked at
Kuiter's TMC book, what other Gasterosteiform ref.s I have
and think that this may well be an as-yet undescribed Pipehorse
species>
Can anybody on the crew provide a more precise (or confident)
ID?
Thanks!
<Am going to send your query and two of my pix to Dr. John
Randall, asking him whom we might ask re further. Jack?
BobF>
Gary (Artful-Dodger)
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Re: Pipehorse video from Fiji dive trip,
Jack... A Pipehorse 11/16/10
ID...
Gary:
Great video. I would say your Pipehorse is an undescribed species.
You should try to collect one or more specimens.
Aloha, Jack
<Good gosh Jack! That was/is quick! Mahalo! BobF> |
| Identifying seahorses Kuda or
Reidi? 11/24/06 Dear WWM Crew I recently wrote to you
after my seahorses bred and have now done a lot of research
unfortunately how ever many pictures I have looked at I still
cannot identify my seahorses. To prevent interbreeding I am
acquiring another pair. <From? Easy to have your source discern
between these two... Kuda is found in the Indo-Pacific...
Reid's in the tropical West Atlantic> I believed mine to be
Hippocampus Kuda <Me too... Reid's has a much more
attenuated rostrum> as that is what LFS said however after
talking to local SeaLife centre I am not sure and they could be
hippocampus reidi. Please please look at these photos and see if
you wonderful people could identify for me. They are approximately
5 inches. By the way the first batch of fry we have 3 surviving and
the second batch which arrived 15 days later we have approx 60
surviving although I expect that number to decrease yet. Thanking
you for your assistance. Yours Rache Hill <Mmm... I strongly
encourage you to join the large "seahorse/syngnathid"
forums... particularly the L-serve of OceanRider... there is much
known re the practical husbandry of these tube-mouthed fishes...
and this getting much easier to access. Bob Fenner> |
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Seahorses... horses? 9/25/05 My 11 year old son wanted to
know if a seahorse is a fish or some other animal? Can you please tell
him. <They are fishes. Some reading for
you. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/tube-mfi.htm <James (Salty
Dog)> Thanks,
Joseph's Mom
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