Now becoming the new creature sought by divers, photographers and videographers all over Indonesia and PNG, I call it the weedy pigmy sea horse.
I first new of this species from a video that had filmed in the Banda Sea around 2000. While I worked with Wakatobi Dive Resort, they were also seen. Later dive guides at Wakatobi resort started to see them regularly.
They have been seen in PNG and more recently it has been seen by in Manado by the guides from Froggies and other dive operators. Now it is being photographed by their happy guests. It is going through the naming process, to be named after one of the guides from Froggies Hippocampus pontohi.
In March 2003 I had the pleasure of finding more of these in the Raja Ampat, West Papua, a photographer and a videographer had the joy of capturing these little gems on film. More sightings in October 2004 in the West Papua along with more pigmy sea horses than I have ever seen, most days we found a few different pigmy's. The Raja Ampat Ampat has been the best place for finding and photographing, these little beauties.
These are even smaller than the H. denise and are much more cryptic than the other more known pigmy sea horses as they are a lot more active and move from place to place where as the other tend to live for long periods of time.
Source:
http://www.diving4images.com/creature_features.html
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