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Sea Pony

Hippocampus fuscus Rüppell 1838

body length

MADtraits

12 cm

(average)
MADtraits

15 cm

(max)

habitat

MADtraits
benthic
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/benthic

Definition: Living at the bottom of a body of water.

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migration

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amphidromous
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FOODON_03413450

Definition: Amphidromous fish move between fresh and salt water during some part of life cycle, but not for breeding

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parental care

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ovoviviparous
URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/Ovoviviparous

Definition: Fully formed eggs are retained and hatched inside the maternal body and are released as live offspring (Lincoln et al., 1998). No nutrition is derived from the mother

Attribution: Lincoln, R., Boxshall, G. & Clark, P., 1998. A dictionary of ecology, evolution and systematics (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Cambridge University of Press.

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reproduction

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iteroparous
URI: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/terms/STRAT_ITER

Definition: Breeding several times per lifetime.

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sexual system

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dioecious
URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/dioecious

Definition: Dioecy is characterised by a species having distinct male and female organisms.

Attribution: K. S. Bawa (1980). Evolution of Dioecy in Flowering Plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 11, pp. 15–39.

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trophic guild

MADtraits
carnivore
URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q81875

Definition: organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue

Attribution: Crustacean body sizes

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(adult)
MADtraits

3.4

water depth

MADtraits

10 m

(max)
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1 m

(min)