Hippocampus bargibanti

The pygmy seahorse lives in the eastern Pacific, from south Japan going south around Indonesia and down to north eastern Australia.https://fishbase.se/summary/Hippocampus-bargibanti.htmlhttps://www.iucnredlist.org/species/10060/54904073https://reeflifesurvey.com/species/hippocampus-bargibantihttps://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/102812-Hippocampus-bargibanti As babies they nestle on a piece of fan coral, change their color from brown to the coral's color, and then live there for the rest of their lives.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CtGoqz3wwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5d7SZ9Ns8 https://projectseahorse.org/how-many-bargibants-pygmy-seahorses-do-you-see/Some species have recently been severed from the pygmy seahorse and several into their own category, though it is not clear to me which localities were confused for what.https://projectseahorse.org/resource/three-new-pygmy-seahorse-species-from-indonesia-teleostei-syngnathidae-hippocampus/ The species is given credit to a Whitley in 1970. The details of which, as always, are unknown to me.
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Category:Seahorses