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The Weedy sea dragon was made the marine emblem of Victoria, Australia.
Click here to find out about the seahorse family ...
The sea dragon has elaborate skin filaments that hang from its head, body, and tail.
The appendages of the leafy sea dragon are usually a shade of green or yellow, and the appendages of the weedy sea dragon are purple with a black border.
the weedy sea dragon
In the sea they look like a piece of floating seaweed.
Fully grown they are about as long as your ruler.
Leafy sea dragon
Leafy sea dragons are related to seahorses and, like their relations, the male seadragons carry their eggs in a pouch for a month before they hatch.
Scientific name: Phycodurus eques ...
Sea dragons do not have any predators. Their combination of excellent camouflage, tough jointed plates and sharp dorsal spines offer adequate protection.
Sea dragons have very long, thin snouts; slender trunks covered in bony rings; and thin tails which, unlike their seahorse cousins, cannot be used for gripping.
Leafy sea dragons eat small shrimplike animals that live among the weeds. Sea dragons' tubelike mouths work like drinking straws: a hungry dragon waits until its prey ventures near, then slurps it up.
Leafy sea dragons, Phycodurus eques, are listed as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: ...
Deep-sea dragon fish - Received from Morgan in Oregon.
Q: I read in Science News about a fish called a loose jaw or dragon fish. These fish are the only known animals to use chlorophyll in their eyes.
leafy sea dragon (Phycodurus eques)
lemon coralgoby (Gobiodon citrinus)
lemonpeel angel (Centropyge flavissima)
leopard puffer (Tetraodon nigrifilis)
leopard shark (Triakis semifasciatus)
leopard wrasse (Macropharyngodon meleagris) ...
First Cousins: Though close relatives of seahorses, sea dragons have bigger bodies and leaf-like appendages which enable them to hide among floating seaweed or kelp beds.
The Seahorse belongs to the same family as pipe fishes and sea dragons.
There are 35 different species of seahorse which can be found in warm shallow waters all over the world.
Included in Syngnathidae are seahorses, the pipefish, and the weedy and leafy sea dragons. Syngnathidae is the only family in the animal kingdom to which the term "male pregnancy" has been applied.[5] ...
 See also: Seahorse, Leafy sea dragon, Shark, Crustacean, Diver
  
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