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Are you inspired to illustrate the other #IconicFishes? Or to highlight?

Anyone can participate in the new arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes:
https://www.iconicfishes.art/participate

Please take a look, boost, & help spread the word about alternative lifestyles.
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#MarineConservation #ArtAndNature #ocean #ecology #conservation #OceanArt #EnvironmentalArt #ArtAndEcology #EcoArt #seahorse #pipefish #trumpetfish #cornetfish #flutemouth #BellowsFish #seadragon

Poster “Inspired by Iconic Fishes” depicting the various species.
“Calling on artists, makers, and dreamers of all ages around the world to join an arts movement inspired by #IconicFishes.
Start by enjoying our inspiration kit on www.iconicfishes.art
Inspired to make new art? Spotted our iconic fishes in existing art?
Share your creation or sighting on social media platforms, tag @IconicFishes with #IconicFishes, or email us at iconicfishes@projectseahorse.org”

The #razorfish #pipefish & #seahorse are all related – yet so different from each other, & from us! See the call by @iconicfishes for a global arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes, & the glorious images / videos / details in the Inspiration Kit at https://www.iconicfishes.art
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#syngnathidae #IconicFishes #music #dance #craft #art #OceanArt

The text says: "Seahorses lead a glorious orchestra of musical marine life: Pipefish, Ghost pipefish, Trumpetfish, Cornetfish/Flutemouth, and Bellowsfish, with the Seadragon as the closing act, the elegant dancer and showstopper. Along with evoking harmony and intrigue through their names, these quirky fishes tell wondrous stories of camouflage and male pregnancy, mate fidelity and ambush predation, stealthy swimming and meditative stillness. These are the unsung heroes of our seas. Help us to amplify their stories through art and music." Photos of the different fishes are labelled "the conductor" (seahorse), “the musicians” (pipefish, trumpetfish, cornetfish or flutemouth, bellowsfish), and “the showstopper” (seadragon).

Here Ammi introduces some of the characters who live in the seagrass, & shows us part of their home.
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#razorfish #pipefish #seahorse #nudibranch #seastar #seagrass #habitat #IconicFishes #AmmiLeong

This painting shows four narrow silver razorfish hanging vertically, heads down, a yellow seahorse anchoring with his tail to a blade of tape seagrass, and two bendy inquisitive pipefish. The seahorse & pipefish are eyeing each other with curiosity. On the seabed we see spoon and fern seagrass, a seaweed, the glossy shell of a marine snail, a small red nudibranch and a large knobbly red seastar. The text reads: "This is Wei Wei, the yellow spotted seahorse. He lives in this seagrass meadow with his friends."

The story is set in a seagrass meadow.
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#seagrass #Malaysia #pipefish #seahorse #seabed #iconicfishes #AmmiLeong

Two-page spread from the book, with an underwater view of the seagrass meadow teeming with diverse plant and animal life, and an above-water view of a distant city, and a bird stepping through the water and eyeing the small creatures below. The text reads: "This is a seagrass meadow in Malaysia. It is home to the yellow spotted seahorse and other marine animals."

The invitation to participate in the global arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes is now available in simplified & traditional Chinese, & in French:
https://www.iconicfishes.art/resources
Looking forward to more languages, & seeing more art inspired by #IconicFishes. Please see our ambitions, & boost!
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#MarineConservation #art #music #dance #sculpture #biology #conservation #ecology #ocean #SaveOurSeas #seahorse #pipefish #seadragon #OceanArt

Screenshot of webpage introducing 'Inspired by Iconic Fishes' in simplified Chinese: a call to artists, makers and dreamers to join us, and explaining why. Glorious images on the left include scientific illustration, a painted seadragon, metal and clay sculptures, dancers, a singer, musicians & a score...

These are dwarfed by the huge scale of new threats. Life amid the 3-dimensionality of a thriving habitat contrasts with the flattened desert & devastated seabed after the passage of a bottom trawl.
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#BottomTrawling #pipefish #seahorse #seadragon #BellowsFish #IconicFishes

Seahorse, pipefish, bellowsfish and a dolphin swim in a varied seascape amid diverse corals and sponges.

In the wake of the bottom trawl, the turbulent water is swirling with dead fish and broken fragments of coral, while the seabed has been scraped and flattened.

A pipefish
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #pipefish

#NewSpecies!
New pipefish from the #seychelles just surfaced:

Festucalex rosa

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F087F1-FFCB-FFFD-3FC4-D1E7DC36460B
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5701.5.8
#Zootaxa #FestucalexRosa

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #pipefish

Holotype of Festucalex rosa, freshly collected.

Pipefish - Syngnathus
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #pipefish

Pipefish
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #pipefish

@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social Mantas are glorious! For further brightening, see the #IconicFishes on a new site from @projectseahorse
https://www.iconicfishes.art/ourfishes

& especially at the glorious inspiration kit under "participate". Please spread the word!

#seahorse #pipefish #trumpetfish #cornetfish #flutemouth #bellowsfish #seadragon

Network Pipefish Guam

very similar to seahorses, fun to watch them swim amongst the coral 🪸

#fish #pipefish #coral #ocean #wildlife #marinelife #underwaterworld #nature #guam #diving #snorkel #underwaterphotography

Not all pictures are winners. There used to be a Facebook group called "Crap Fish Photography" and I would have submitted this image to that group. This is a northern pipefish, straight on, with focus somehow on the tiny snail on top of its head. I mean, just look at those googly eyes 😂

#fail #badFocus #pipefish #fish #underwaterPhotography #macro

A northern pipefish emerging from some sea lettuce with a tiny snail hat

Dive number: 706 & 707
Date / time: Wed Sep 3, 2025
Dive site: Loblolly Cove & Folly Cove, Massachusetts

Loblolly Cove looked good, but it was deceptive. After we had already stashed the cars (you can't park anywhere near the site), we noticed quite a bit of sloshing at the point and the middle rock, but on we went! We submerged to junky viz and a large surge, but I found a juvenile boxfish almost immediately. I found some nudis on the kelp and while I was photographing one piece, a mega-tiny lumpfish emerged to say hello. I spotted an absolutely MASSIVE lobster out by the point before we turned and swam our way in, greeting some swimmers as the entered the water for a float.

After mediocre conditions at Loblolly, we relocated to Folly. It was so different! We arrived to gorgeous conditions above and below. We didn't find any tropicals on this dive, but we did find several pipefish, rock gunnels, sand shrimp, stripers hitting the sand lance without any regard for us. This was a much more enjoyable dive.

#lobsters #snails #shrimp #tropicalfish #gulfstreamorphans #pipefish #macro #Massachusetts #olympus #underwaterPhotography

A tiny juvenile boxfish blown up the coast by the Gulf Stream current sloshes around in the intense surge

A northern pipefish emerges from the seaweed to pose against the green water background

American lobster through the macro lens!

Northern lacuna snails tightly packed on a blade of sugar kelp

A Pipefish - Singnatus
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #pipefish

There is a Ghost pipefish in the seafan
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #coral #ghost #pipefish #gorgonia

Pipefish - Syngnathes
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #pipefish

A Worm pipefish (Nerophis lumbriciformis), caught briefly in a shrimp net before being released.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #pipefish #ireland

#Pipefish #Peaceful #Relaxing
Just posted a video on Tic Toe of our freshwater pipefish.
No commentary, just a peaceful 17 minute video. Enjoy !!
https://www.tiktok.com/tiktokstudio/content

Pipefish - Syngnathus
#gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #pipefish

#pipefish

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