Close-up of rare species of dragons in the seabed

The long-leafed seaweed is a fish of the lime family, shaped like dragon-shaped leaves and appears only on the west and south coast of Australia.

Long sea leaves usually live in waters with a depth of 5-35m. In particular, they appear only in temperate waters with year-round temperatures ranging from 14-19 degrees Celsius.

Normally, Hai Long leaf has a length of nearly 35cm, but there are some animals that grow especially so their size can be up to 45cm.

With a leaf-like body, it helps to make the long-green seaweed the most cleverly disguised on the ocean floor, merging with the plants. Therefore, the types of fish are difficult to know that it is a fish so it is difficult to avoid being eaten.

Hai Long leaves restrained movement and could stand still in one position for a long time of 68 hours. However, some sea lilies will occasionally move at 150m / h and for a long time.

Long-leaf seaweed has long and small mouths, mainly used to attract prey into. Their favorite food is small invertebrates that live around the kelp.

For self-defense as well as attack, sea dragon leaves its body and points its spikes. That is the most important weapon of this rare fish in the ocean floor.

Sea lettuce leaves lay eggs once a year and lay about 250 eggs at a time. Then, they will put their eggs on the incubator located on the tail of the male to fertilize.

The eggs are male dragons that carry all their sides until they hatch. After about 8 weeks, the eggs will hatch into long-necked sea lilies, but only about 5% will grow to adulthood (about 2 years old).

Because of its wonderful, different beauty, seabass leaves become the object of hobbyists and those who are interested in hunting foreign animals and trying to hunt and sell them illegally.