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Citizen scientists contribute vital information about 35 seahorse species: their geographic ranges, habitats, and pregnancy seasonality

Citizen scientists contribute vital information about 35 seahorse species: their geographic ranges, habitats, and pregnancy seasonality

Thanks to diligent observers, seahorses, those enigmatic and charismatic fish, are not only being discovered in new habitats and expanded geographic ranges, they are also being found at new ocean depths. While their capacity for male pregnancy has long fascinated people, new information on sex ratio and pregnancy seasonality has been discovered by, well, you. […]

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, conservation, faculty, IOF students, iSeahorse, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Research, seahorses

Global seahorse conservation platform celebrates citizen science milestone

Global seahorse conservation platform celebrates citizen science milestone

Dennis Rabeling’s observation of the short-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) species, was citizen community science platform iSeahorse’s 10,000th observation.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, conservation, faculty, IOF Research Associates, iSeahorse, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Sarah Foster, seahorses

Changes in the international trade in live seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) after their listing on CITES Appendix II

Changes in the international trade in live seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) after their listing on CITES Appendix II

This new Fisheries Centre Research Report (FCRR) investigates the international live trade in seahorses.

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, CITES, faculty, FCRR, IOF Research Associates, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, Sarah Foster, seahorses

FCRR: Identifying national conservation status, legislation and priorities for syngnathid fishes globally

FCRR: Identifying national conservation status, legislation and priorities for syngnathid fishes globally

This research, conducted by Project Seahorse, provides in-depth assessments on the gaps in global extinction risk assessments with particular focus on Syngnathid fishes (seahorses, pipefishes, pipehorses, and seadragons).

Posted in 2021, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, conservation, extinction, faculty, FCRR, international trade, IOF Research Associates, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Publications, Sarah Foster, seahorses

IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish and Seadragon Specialist Group wins award

IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish and Seadragon Specialist Group wins award

This specialist group is chaired by chaired by Dr. Amanda Vincent

Posted in 2019, IOF Honours, IOFNews | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, awards, faculty, IUCN, seahorses

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