Seahorse Info

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Portals and megasites

Project Seahorse, a collaborative center for seahorse research. Highlights include a press release "Smallest seahorse discovered", on Project Seahorse researcher Sara Lourie's discovery of the tiny Hippocampus denise. See also their position statement on seahorses in Traditional Medicine.

Secrets of the Seahorse, from the Birch Aquarium. Wondrous omnigatherum of seahorse biology, history, conservation and so froth. The biology section has a Flash gizmo that allows you to move your mouse over the different parts of the sea horse anatomy to display a description. You can listen to sounds of sea horses eating, play games, know about the conservation initiative taken by the aquarium and also a video of their sea horse exhibit.

Amazon. NOVA, Kingdom of the Seahorse, from WGBH Boston (1997).

PBS Nova: Kingdom of the Sea Horse. This is an excellent site with a lot of information like the basic anatomy of the sea horse, interesting information and trivia about sea horses plus a large article of how Amanda Vincent became interested in sea horses and details of her research.

Sea Horse Park (a web page, not a physical place) includes a wealth of somewhat disorganized information on sea horses and a good set of links. The idea of the site seems to be rather like this one, but it looks like it's lain fallow since the mid 90s.

Seahorse Resource Roundup from Seahorse Surreal. Includes an excellent aquarium-by-aquarium website review. Courtesy Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, OR.

Encyclopedias

Dictionary.com (with AHD, Websters, WordNet).

Wikipedia. Modest entry from an excellent resource.

Columbia Encyclopedia. Also here.

Seahorse Info

Amazon. Seahorses, Pipefishes, and Their Kin by Sara Swan Miller. (Ages 9-12)

Sea horse facts from the Wildlife Fact File (courtesy goodnightstories.com). Lots of good facts.

Sea horse general description from "shades, seahorses and sea dragons." Includes details of anatomy, as well as pages on Leafy Seadragon, Weedy Seadragons, and a good page on Seahorse survival.

Galloping Sea Horses, an article by Glen Moore for Western Fisheries magazine (Australia). Descriptive article about the sea horse life, birth, habitat and a bit about their courtship.

Sea horses information by Barbara Mack. Looks like a paper.

Frequently Asked Questions from Seahorse Surreal. Includes questions like "How many species are there?", "What do seahorses eat?" and "How do seahorses reproduce?"

Aquarium Fact Sheets and Info

"Sea horses beat the odds of surviving" Associated Press article about the closing of Chicago's Shedd Aquarium sea horse exhibit. Also here.

PDF: Sea horse fact file from the Bristol Zoo. Brief information, like worldwide distribution and type of habitat of sea horses. Text-heavy.

SeaWorld/Busch Gardens. General description and an image.