[Coral-List] seahorse males develop placentas for young

Capman, William capman at augsburg.edu
Thu Sep 30 07:47:26 UTC 2021


Very cool.  Thanks for sharing this.

But it appears the editor of this article chose of photo of a female
seahorse rather than a male, but labeled it as being a male!

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 12:59 AM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

> Most seahorses live in seagrass beds, but at least one or more tiny species
> live on sea fans on which they are super camouflaged and which surely are
> on coral reefs.
>      If I remember, much of the reproductive biology is shared with
> pipefish, which show a series from eggs external and glued on to small
> pouch walls to both sides of the eggs, to complete pouch walls that
> surround them.
>       I remind that some sharks have placentas as well.
>
> Male seahorses grow placentas to incubate their young.
>
>
> https://www.science.org/content/article/male-seahorses-grow-placentas-incubate-their-young
>
> Cheers, Doug
>
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