Tender ghost pipefish
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Tender ghost pipefish ( Solenostomus leptosoma ) |
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The tender ghost pipefish ( Solenostomus leptosoma ) lives in the tropical Indian Ocean and in the western Pacific from Mauritius to Japan and Australia . Their color is pink to brownish red. Adult fish reach a length of ten centimeters and have a white longitudinal stripe along the trunk. Several fleshy, fringed appendages hang on the underside of the tubular mouth, the one under the middle of the snout is the largest.
The fish are initially transparent and live pelagic . They only go almost fully grown, with a length of about eight centimeters, in order to reproduce to the ground-based life. They then live above all on sandy soils at depths of less than 15 meters along reef edges. As with all ghost pipefish, the females form a brood pouch with their pelvic fins and carry the eggs around with them until the young fish hatch.
literature
- Rudie H. Kuiter: Seahorses, pipefish, shredded fish and their relatives , 2001, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8001-3244-3
Web links
- Tender ghost pipefish on Fishbase.org (English)