Hippocampus japapigu, the Japanese Pygmy Seahorse officially Described

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Hippocampus japapigu is a precious new species of seahorse that wa srecently described from Japan. Despite its recent description, this very tiny seahorse has been documented for over a decade in the waters of Japan and was previously believed to be a variant of Pontohi’s seahorse, Hippocampus pontohi. What this really tiny barely half-inch pygmy seahorse […]

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