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How does the male seahorse carry the young?
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Published 5 hours ago
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Source: TunisieVet
In the speckled seahorse, it is the male who carries the pregnancy: the female deposits her eggs in her ventral brood pouch using an ovipositor, he fertilizes them on site, then incubates them, oxygenates them and regulates their salinity for approximately three to four weeks before expelling dozens to several hundred autonomous juveniles.
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Long-snouted seahorse
Hippocampus guttulatus · Fish · Vulnerable
