[
US
/ˈpaɪpˌfɪʃ/
]
NOUN
- fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
How To Use pipefish In A Sentence
- Away from the reef are scattered rocks featuring small heads of coral; a great place for seahorses and ghost pipefishes.
- The behaviors that benefit your average female wasp are different from those that benefit the average male wasp, and the same holds for bluebirds or pipefish.
- Fish life is also excellent, with an abundance of angelfish, butterflies and wrasse; unusual species like frogfish, ghost pipefish and juvenile batfish are also encountered on occasion.
- Two ornate ghost pipefish sought refuge amongst the frayed strands, but these proved difficult to the unpractised eye; the divemasters knew exactly where to find them.
- Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish.
- 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?
- Molecular analyses also highlight geographical centers of biodiversity and suggest interoceanic migration of Syngnathus pipefishes from their center of origin in the Pacific.
- But Madagascar isn't entirely mantas and sharks, crabs and pipefish.