Marine biologists from the University of British Columbia were lucky to witness a New Holland seahorse (Hippocampus whitei) giving birth in the waters off of Little Beach in Nelson Bay, New South Wales, in November 2015.
The New Holland seahorse, also known as the Sydney seahorse or the White’s seahorse, is an endemic Australian species of fish in the family Syngnathidae.
This species grows to about 8 inches (20 cm) in length and occurs in depths down to about 65 feet (25 m) in shallow, weedy, inshore areas, in seagrass beds, on sponges, and often under jetties on kelp holdfasts............
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