Cryptic critter - pipefish

[PhilW]

I took this photo in the seagrass beds at the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary in Williamstown. These pipefish are incredibly hard to spot; as you can see in the photo, they look just like seagrass (it is in the lower half of the photo). This specimen was 7-8cm long and 2-3mm wide. This was the best of 20 or so photos; they just looked like seagrass strands in most of them.

[duncan]

Hi Phil,

As you said they are very hard to spot. When i lived in Sth Australia we would look for these and Sea Horses when diving the shallow reefs.

You have done well to spot and photograph this one.

Cheers and thanks for posting this unusual little fellow.

[Liz]

Hard little critter to see, but there he is, well done Phil