The ornate ghost pipefish lives beside crinoids, the feather stars of the reef, and has made itself into one. Fringed fins, a spotted body, a colour that matches whatever host it has chosen. Most divers swim past.
It is a relative of the seahorse, and like the seahorse it has reversed the usual order of parenthood, though here it is the female who carries. Her pelvic fins have grown together into a pouch and the eggs develop inside it.
This one hung head-down in the open, which they do to feed, against a background that happened to be beautiful. Tulamben, Bali.
An ornate ghost pipefish, Tulamben.
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Eight lines from the dive
Photographed in Tulamben
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