Pot-belly, upside-down, weedy. All mingle in our marine environment. THE SPARKLING ocean inlet of Port Stephens, more than twice the size of Sydney Harbour and nestled between Nelson Bay and Hawks Nest on the NSW lower north coast, is a seahorse hotspot, with four species found here -- this phenomenon occurs nowhere else in the country, and is considered rare worldwide. Members of the syngnathid family, which includes seahorses, along with pipefish, pipehorses and seadragons, are unique: they're theonly animals in the world in which the male gives birth.
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