Seahorse · Male-pregnancy fish — Hippocampus since Linnaeus (1758), dried trade, and CITES Appendix II (2002).
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Yes. The female deposits eggs in the male brood pouch; he incubates them. Linnaeus named Hippocampus in 1758; CITES Appendix II (2002) frames modern pressure.
A conservation-research group led by Amanda Vincent that supplied much of the CITES and bycatch evidence from the 1990s onward.
Documented international trade in dried and live animals met a genus that is sparse, site-faithful and easy to over-collect.
By volume, dried medicine and curio shipments plus trawl bycatch outweigh hobby live fish in most analyses.
Some live-hobby demand is captive-bred. Dried-trade volume and trawl bycatch are not solved by a hatchery SKU.
A rigid bony plate body and a dorsal fin that buzzes rather than a caudal fluke. Camouflage replaces flight.
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Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0
Upright syngnathid type.
Hippocampus (genus, Global shallows) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Trade science that fed the 2002 listing.
Amanda Vincent (Project Seahorse, Canada / UK) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Nathanmao · CC BY-SA 4.0
UBC/ZSL-linked conservation research.
Project Seahorse (1996-, International) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Appendix II for all seahorses.
CITES CoP12 (2002 listing, Chile meeting) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Emőke Dénes · CC BY-SA 4.0
Frequent dried-trade and IUCN example.
Hippocampus kuda (estuarine species, Indo-Pacific) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
Partner sites in the Philippines and beyond.
ZSL seahorse programmes (in-situ, United Kingdom) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
James Rosindell · CC BY-SA 4.0
Syngnathid cousin that pulls tourism without the TCM volume.
Leafy seadragon (related icon, Australia) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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The meadow whose loss is a listing driver.
Seagrass meadows (holdfast habitat, Global) is filed here as a dated individual, programme or portrayal -- not as a rank of the living animal.
“Icons teach constraints: law, habitat and methods matter as much as a famous face.”
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Ending a dried stall does not close a shrimp trawl. Both numbers are real; the larger one is often incidental.
Hobby farms can be clean. They do not retire a pharmacopoeia.
Apex lamnid whose warm muscle, broad diet and 1975 cinema still outrun the tagging papers.
Overall 66 🐟Anadromous fishes that move ocean fat onto spawning gravels -- and into forests, treaties and hydropower fights.
Overall 63 🐟A warm-bodied tuna whose Tokyo auction prices and ICCAT quotas made a single fish into a geopolitical unit.
Overall 54 🐠Anemone-dwelling damselfish whose 2003 film fame became a capture-and-reef case study.
Overall 41 🎏Domesticated carp whose Niigata colour mutations became a global pond aesthetic -- not a wild goldfish substitute.
Overall 42 🐡Beak-toothed inflators whose tetrodotoxin made a Japanese cuisine and a genome project out of one family.
Overall 41 ⚡Amazon knifefishes whose stacked electrocytes taught Humboldt, Volta arguments and a 2019 species split.
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