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Title: Shortpouch pygmy pipehorse attached to tunicate. Indonesia
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A shortpouch pygmy pipehorse (Acentronura breviperula) wraps its prehensile tail around a colonial tunicate (Perophora namei). Pipehorses look like pipefish, but have a prehensile tail like seahorses. Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia.
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- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- coral reef
- Fishes
- Indonesia
- macro
- Marine Life
- Raja Ampat
- Seahorses: Syngathidae: Sygnathidae
- shortpouch pygmy pipehorse: Acentronura breviperula
- South East Asia
- tropical
- West Papua
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