Pipefish

Word PIPEFISH
Character 8
Hyphenation pipe fish
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Definitions and meanings of "Pipefish"

What do we mean by pipefish?

Any of various slim fishes of the subfamily Syngnathinae chiefly of marine waters, having a tubelike snout and an elongated body encased in bony rings. noun

One of the several lopho-branehiate fishes which have a long tubular snout like a pipe, as any member of the Syngnathidæ or Hippo-campidæ. noun

Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place. noun

A small fish from the seahorse family noun

Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates noun

A small fish of the seahorse family, having a long thin body covered with partially ossified plates, the head long, and the jaws elongated so as to form a tubular snout.

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The word "pipefish" in example sentences

A skinny little fish called the pipefish is high on the list of wildlife oddities, for the male of the species is the one which gets pregnant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The pipefish, which is related to the seahorse, has an unusual way of organising childcare. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This one contained a slab of grey stone from the Marecchia River Formation in Italy, bearing the complete skeleton of a 20+ centimeter specimen of Syngnathus acus, an extinct species of pipefish from the Lower Pliocene (about 3-5 million years old). ❋ Faustfatale (2010)

Other resident fish species include threespine stickleback, gunnels, sculpin and bay pipefish (Figure 1). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fishes then in general produce their young by copulation, and lay their eggs; but the pipefish, as some call it, when the time of parturition arrives, bursts in two, and the eggs escape out. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Another pipefish, the Longsnout (Syngnathus acus) was common in these rivers and used to co-exist with the River Pipefish. ❋ Unknown (1994)

Just out of the corner of my eye — they can hide like pipefish in reeds — but I have seen the movement. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1991)

Stay at Lembeh Resort lembehresort.com, grab your underwater camera and follow your dive master as he points out the weird and the wonderful: frogfish, ornate ghost pipefish, flying gurnards and devil scorpionfish. ❋ Darryl Leniuk (2011)

But unlike most pipefish, which swim towards their prey, seahorses sit and wait for their little victims to pass by. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Seahorses evolved from straight-bodied pipefish left ❋ Unknown (2011)

"My theory is that you have this ancestral pipefish-like fish and they evolved a more cryptic lifestyle," said Dr Wassenbergh. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A study published in the journal Nature Communications has shown that, compared to straight-bodied pipefish from which they evolved, seahorses are able to strike at more distant prey. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Both seahorse and pipefish feed on tiny marine creatures, striking at them and sucking them into their snouts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Images View Larger Images When it comes to the mating game, sea horses and their cousins, the pipefish, couldn't be ❋ Unknown (2010)

Male pipefish, like their sea horse cousins, carry and care for their young. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Before all of this could happen, of course, the scientists had to get the pipefish to mate, and it seemed that males preferred to mate with larger females. ❋ Brian Switek [email protected] (2010)

Since the brood pouches of the male pipefish were clear, photographs of the brood taken shortly after egg transfer, in the middle of the pregnancy, and before birth provided measures of health and mortality, and by recording these patterns the scientists hoped to detect whether males were investing differently in their broods. ❋ Brian Switek [email protected] (2010)

This was not especially surprising since this pipefish species is sexually dimorphic (and so it was expected that males would prefer females that were bigger and showed more secondary sexual characteristics), but what was especially interesting was how these preferences influenced reproduction. ❋ Brian Switek [email protected] (2010)

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