By definition, wouldn’t we just say that the pregnant partner in a species is the female? Is there another step I’ve missed?
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The sex occurs as usual for a fish, then the eggs are deposited in the male sea horses pouch where they are then fertilised.
Otherwise, the sea horses gonads are typical of any other fish species, where the females have ovaries which produce eggs and the males have testes which produce sperm that fertilises the eggs.
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