Top 5%

It was hard to do, but here's my shot at the best seahorse and sea dragons sites, arbitrarily restricting myself to the top 5% of all listed sites. Sites that make the list are entitled to display this attractive and highly-coveted award! (Click here if you won the award.)

Seahorse Info

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.

Seahorse Topics

The sea horse physiology web site. This is a great website and was created for the class Animal Physiology (Michael Dorcas, Davidson College). Focuses on topics like physiology, structure and size, excretion, reproduction and conservation. Then there's New Research in Sea Horse Excretion!

A Quick ID Guide for the Hobby's Most Common Seahorses by Christopher Burns. Handy, "brief and simple identification guide."

Audio: New laws protecting sea horses article/interview by Mike Corkill, talking with NSW Fisheries Threatened Species Manager Bill Talbot.

Seahorse Species

Fishbase, the most important place for seahorse species information.

Smallest seahorse discovered, on Project Seahorse researcher Sara Lourie's discovery of the tiny Hippocampus denise. From Project Seahorse.

Sara Lourie page, with a zoomable image of Coleman's seahorse, H. Colemani. Courtesy the Australian Museum Online.

Kids (K-6)

Seahorse Challenge! Very entertaining game, involving spotting seahorses. The second level, where you match seahorses to their environment, is particularly good. Game from Birch Aquarium, Secrets of the Seahorse.

Photographs, Drawings and Videos

This site's Seahorse Thumbnail Gallery thumbnails all the best images from all over the web.

Extensive photo gallery from Seahorse.org with sections on other Syngnathiformes (relatives). Interesting, if disgusting, section on seahorse diseases. From Seahorse.org.

Weedy and Leafy Sea Dragons

Dragon Search aggregates amateur sea-dragon sightings, to track distribution, habitat and so forth. The site also serves as a main source of information about sea dragons. Notable features include a Diving Code of Conduct, on how to behave around wild seadragons, a video library and a very extensive photo library.

Sea Dragon Images and Thumbnail Gallery

Leafy sea dragons photos and weedy sea dragon photos, from Jeff's Nudibranch Site and Coral Reef Gallery.

Home Aquaria and Seahorse Care

Seahorse.org is a large and multifaceted home aquarium site, billing itself as the "Internet's number one source for information about seahorses and related syngnathid species." Highlights include Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), Discussion List, and photo gallery.

Miscellaneous

Seahorse tattoo pictures from all over the web, collected here.