Pygmy Pipehorse

Pygmy Pipehorse

Pygmy Pipehorse

I came across this cute little fellow whilst diving at Bare Island, La Perouse, Sydney, Australia. Taken with my Nikon 7900. Sydney's Pygmy Pipehorse (Idiotropiscis lumnitzeri kuiteris) is named after Akos Lumnitzer who collected the type specimens.
Photocomp October '05 - Novice

2005-11-04

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The Sydney Pygmy PipehorseThe Sydney Pygmy Pipehorse
I thought my eyes were deceiving me. All I could make out was a little white fish resembling a seahorse, no bigger than a 50-cent piece. Yet it was so elaborately disguised I literally bumped into it head first.....
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