A narrow elongated chiefly marine fish with segmented bony armour beneath the skin and a long tubular snout. The male typically has a brood pouch in which the eggs develop.
海龙
Syngnathus and other genera, family Syngnathidae: numerous species
Example sentencesExamples
This approach has been successfully used in a sex-role reversed population of the broad-nosed pipefish, Syngnathus typhle.
But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish.
Away from the reef are scattered rocks featuring small heads of coral; a great place for seahorses and ghost pipefishes.
Genetic analysis of the gulf pipefish showed as many as four males being simultaneously ‘pregnant’ with eggs from the same female.
Leafy seadragons are bony fish in the family Syngnathidae which includes seahorses and pipefishes.
Do pipefish and seahorse males have complete confidence of paternity, as might be expected given their involved parental care?
Definition of pipefish in US English:
pipefish
nounˈpīpˌfiSHˈpaɪpˌfɪʃ
A narrow, elongated, chiefly marine fish with segmented bony armor beneath the skin and a long tubular snout.
海龙
Syngnathus and other genera, family Syngnathidae: numerous species
Example sentencesExamples
Leafy seadragons are bony fish in the family Syngnathidae which includes seahorses and pipefishes.
Do pipefish and seahorse males have complete confidence of paternity, as might be expected given their involved parental care?
But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish.
This approach has been successfully used in a sex-role reversed population of the broad-nosed pipefish, Syngnathus typhle.
Away from the reef are scattered rocks featuring small heads of coral; a great place for seahorses and ghost pipefishes.
Genetic analysis of the gulf pipefish showed as many as four males being simultaneously ‘pregnant’ with eggs from the same female.