We are approaching the home stretch, with the second to last installment of our tour through this amazing Aquaman cover. Have you been following along? How many have you guessed so far?

If you haven’t been following along, you can catch up with the previous installments, below:

• The incredible biodiversity of Aquaman’s variant cover
• The incredible biodiversity of Aquaman’s variant cover: Episode 2
• The incredible biodiversity of Aquaman’s variant cover: Halfway Home
• The incredible biodiversity of Aquaman’s variant cover: Part four of a six part trilogy

13. Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti)

Pygmy Seahorse. Photo by Jens Petersen.

I started my career in marine science working with seahorses, so these goofy, thoroughly un-fish-like fish, hold a special place in my heart. All seahorses are pretty weird, but pygmy seahorses might be the weirdest. These tiny animals, barely 2 centimeters long, live exclusively on gorgonian corals, their lump profile allows them to blend perfectly into the backdrop. Their bulbous protrusions will assume the color of their host coral.

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