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Introduction1
Deep Marine Scenes (YouTube Channel)
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Dictionary
seahorse : any of a genus (Hippocampus of the family Syngnathidae) of small bony fishes that have the head angled downward toward the body which is carried vertically and are equipped with a prehensile tail — Webster See also OneLook
Encyclopedia
Seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is the name given to 45 species of small marine fishes in the genus Hippocampus. Having a head and neck suggestive of a horse, seahorses also feature segmented bony armour, an upright posture and a curled prehensile tail. — Wikipedia
Seahorse (Encyclopædia Britannica)
About Seahorses (Project Seahorse)
Seahorse Taxonomy (Project Seahorse)
Seahorses (One Zoom)
Hippocampus (Catalogue of Life)
Seahorse (WolframAlpha)
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Innovation
Science
Ichthyology, also called fish science, is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including jawless fish (Agnatha), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) and bony fish (Osteichthyes). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October 2016, with approximately 250 new species described each year. — Wikipedia
Ichthyology (Encyclopædia Britannica)
FishBase (R. Froese & D. Pauly)
Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (California Academy of Sciences)
Seahorse: Hippocampus Erectus (Florida Museum of Natural History)
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Preservation
Library
DDC: 597.6798 Seahorses (Library Thing)
Subject: Seahorses (Library Thing)
Subject: Seahorses (Open Library)
LCC: QL 638.S9 Seahorses (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Seahorses (UPenn Online Books)
LCC: QL 638.S9 Seahorses (Library of Congress)
Subject: Seahorses (Library of Congress)
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Participation
Education
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Community
Occupation
Organization
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Zoological Association of America
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
News
Seahorse (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Seahorse (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Seahorse (Science Daily)
Seahorse (Science News)
Seahorse (Phys.org)
Seahorse (NPR Archives)
Government
Fish & Sharks (Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries)
Document
More News …
Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.
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The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.
- New vessel deployed in fight to save near-extinct...on January 26, 2023 at 9:09 pm
Conservationists have deployed a new vessel in the fight to save the world's rarest marine mammal from extinction due to illegal fishing in Mexico's Gulf of California.
- DNA in the water shows South African scientists...on January 3, 2023 at 3:21 pm
Keeping track of the world's wildlife populations is fundamental to conservation efforts in the face of the continued deterioration of global biodiversity.
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- There are, in fact, fish in the Hudson Riveron November 3, 2022 at 3:50 pm
People tend to laugh when I tell them that my job after college was catching fish out of the Hudson River. As someone who lacks the particular brand of outdoorsy-ness fitting to this job, it seems like an unlikely position for me, but what is more unlikely to people is that there are fish in the Hudson. Many assume that the river is incapable of supporting life. That the river itself is dead.
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