Pipefish is also known as "Yang Zhi Yu" and "Guan Mouth Yu".In terms of category, pipefish belongs to Chordata, Osteichthyes, Gasterichthyes, Syngnathidae.It can be seen that pipefish is a vertebrate and a bony fish, belonging to fish.As a fish, some characteristics of pipefish conform to the basic characteristics of fish, such as breathing with gills, breeding with eggs and so on.Their specific reproductive mode is similar to that of seahorses, and they are also born by their fathers.The male has a pouch in which the female will lay her eggs, and the father will give birth to the baby.
From the point of view of living environment, pipefish live in the ocean and belong to a kind of marine animal, which is also the reason why they get their name.Specifically, they are most widely distributed in the coastal waters of Australia.There are also some sea dragons in China, mainly in the North Sea of China.From the point of view of feeding habits, they mainly eat a variety of plankton in the water, and sometimes eat some small crustaceans.
As mentioned above, the pipefish belongs to the class Osteichthyes, so it is a kind of fish.As fish, they also use oviparous reproductive methods, but their specific reproductive methods are different from most fish, because they are male to give birth to small sea dragons.Sea dragons are closely related to seahorses, so their reproductive patterns are similar.Only male sea dragons have a pouch, so females will lay their eggs in it, and after 20 days of development, the baby sea dragon will be born.Moreover, as fish, sea dragons also use gills to breathe.
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