On these pages -- fish from Ambon: a rarely seen bamboo shark, a juvenile batfish, a rare singed pipefish, triggerfish mating, wrasses fighting, seahorses, and the list goes on.  

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  • longtail carpet shark or bamboo shark, small shark hides in coral reefs during the day, comes out at night, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • juvenile pinnate batfish (Platax pinnatus), resembles distasteful flatworm in shape, in color, and locomotion (both move by undulating") Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • black-ray shrimp goby (Stonogobiops nematodes), with Randall's pistol shrimp (Alpheus randalli), example of mutualism, gobies keep watch for shrimp that excavates burrow for both to live in, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • winged pipefish (Halicampus macrorhynchus), camouflaged to resemble sponges and invertebrates that it lives among, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • seahorse, possibly spotted or estuary seahorse (Hippocamps kuda), or Molluccan seahorse (Hippocampus Moluccensis), or common seahorse (Hippocampus taeniopterus), Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • seahorse, possibly spotted or estuary seahorse (Hippocamps kuda), or Molluccan seahorse (Hippocampus Moluccensis), or common seahorse (Hippocampus taeniopterus), Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • probably Thorny Seahorse (Hippocampus histrix), also called Longspine Seahorse, Longsnout Seahorse, Spiny Seahorse, Prickly Seahorse, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012; Found on sandy bottoms with corals and sponges; attach to anything they can get their tail around. feed on tiny swimming invertebrates which they suck whole into their mouths.
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  • CAMOUFLAGE: harlequin ghost pipefish or sea dragon Solenostomus paradoxus; appearance and behavior resembles soft coral or sea fan in which it hides, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • CAMOUFLAGE: harlequin ghost pipefish or sea dragon Solenostomus paradoxus; appearance and behavior resembles soft coral or sea fan in which it hides, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • Orange-Banded Pipefish (Doryrhamphus pessuliferus), pipefishes, like their seahorse relatives, leave most of the parenting duties to the male. Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • Papuan Toby (Canthigaster papua) spawning, or closely related ocellated or bluespotted toby (Canthigaster solandri), puffers are poisonous and can inflate their bodies to avoid predators, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • Papuan Toby (Canthigaster papua) spawning, or closely related ocellated or bluespotted toby (Canthigaster solandri), puffers are poisonous and can inflate their bodies to avoid predators, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • Papuan Toby (Canthigaster papua) spawning, or closely related ocellated or bluespotted toby (Canthigaster solandri), puffers are poisonous and can inflate their bodies to avoid predators, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012
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  • Papuan Toby (Canthigaster papua) spawning, or closely related ocellated or bluespotted toby (Canthigaster solandri), puffers are poisonous and can inflate their bodies to avoid predators, Ambon, Indonesia, February 2012