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Title: Planktonic Larval Stage Pipefish, Indonesia
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The delicate larval stage of a short-tailed pipefish (Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus) drifts as part of the plankton before it will settle on the seabed as an adult. Photographed in open water, at night. Bitung, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lembeh Strait, Molucca Sea
- Bitung
- blackwater
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- Fishes
- Indonesia
- larval stage
- Lembeh Strait
- Marine Life
- Molucca Sea
- North Sulawesi
- pelagic
- plankon
- Seahorses: Syngathidae: Sygnathidae
- short-tailed pipefish: Trachyrhamphus bicoarctatus
- South East Asia
- tropical
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