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A seahorse that skipped leg day and fell flat on its spine.
means A thin, elongated fish with a tube-shaped snout and bony armored body, closely related to seahorses, that drifts upright or sideways among seagrass and coral to avoid predators.
from Straightforwardly descriptive: 'pipe' for the long, narrow, hollow-looking snout and body shape, like a tube or smoking pipe, plus 'fish.' It belongs to the family Syngnathidae, from Greek 'syn' (together) and 'gnathos' (jaw), referring to the fused jaws that form that distinctive tubular snout — the same family seahorses call home, which is why the two look like stretched and curled versions of each other.
- the dad
- males carry and birth the babies, not females
- body armor
- bony plates instead of scales, like tiny knights
- eating style
- snout works like a straw, slurping tiny prey
- camouflage game
- some sway like seagrass to vanish in plain sight