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Title: Ghost Pipefish Shoal. Indonesia.
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A shoal of ornate ghost pipefish (Solenostomus paradoxus) parades below a black coral bush (Antipathes sp). The extraordinary camouflage of these small (8 cm) slow-moving fish both protects them from predators and allows them to stalk their own prey of small crustaceans.
Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram Sea, tropical West Pacific Ocean.
Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia. Ceram Sea, tropical West Pacific Ocean.
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- Ceram Sea
- coral reef
- critter
- Fishes
- Ghost Pipefishes: Solenostomidae
- Indonesia
- Marine Life
- muck dive
- muck diving
- ornate ghost pipefish: Solenostomus paradoxus
- South East Asia
- tropical
- Tropical West Pacific Ocean.
- West Papua
- wide angle