Habitat
''Hippocampus barbouri'' is found inPopulation
Records show a 30% decline in the ''H. barbouri'' population over the past 10 years, which has continued to increase due to over fishing and the destruction of seagrass habitats. Exact numbers are unknown but percentage estimates can be made using fishing records. ''H. barbouri'' is classified as Vulnerable by the 2017 IUCN red list assessments. They were first put on the Red list in 1996. Respondents at various levels of trade (including fishers, buyers, wholesalers, retailers, exporters and officials) in 1998 and 1999 in Malaysia reported declines in seahorse numbers and availability and that ''H. barbouri'' was one of the most common species traded.Feeding and identification
The Barbour's seahorse feeds on smallReproduction
This species isPredation
''Hippocampus barbouri'' are most vulnerable during theAquaculture
These seahorses are widely traded for traditional medicines and aquarium trading. This, along with the fact that their habitat it being destroyed, has caused their population size to continuously decrease.Naming
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Further reading
* Pollom, R. 2017. ''Hippocampus barbouri''. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017:e.T40802A54906903. http://oldredlist.iucnredlist.org/details/40802/0 * Payne, M. F. (2003). Rearing the coral seahorse, ''Hippocampus barbouri'', on live and inert prey. ''Marine Ornamental Species: Collection, Culture & Conservation'', 289–296. * Lourie, S. A., Green, D. M., & Vincent, A. C. J. (2005). Dispersal, habitat differences, and comparative phylogeography of Southeast Asian seahorses (Syngnathidae: ''Hippocampus''). ''Molecular ecology'', 14(4), 1073–1094. * Perez-Oconer, E. (2002). Reproductive biology and gestation of the male seahorse, ''Hippocampus barbouri'' (Jordan and Richardson 1908) (Doctoral dissertation, PhD thesis, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines). * Foster, S J. 2016. Seahorses (''Hippocampus'' spp.) and the CITES Review of Significant Trade. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 48(8): 48 pp. * Foster, S.J. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2004. Life history and ecology of seahorses: implications for conservation and management. ''Journal of Fish Biology'' 65: 1–61. * Giles, B.G., Truong, S.K., Do, H.H. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2006. The catch and trade of seahorses in Vietnam. ''Biodiversity Conservation'', pp. 2497–2513. * Hou, F., Wen, L., Peng, C. and Guo, J. 2016. Identification of marine traditional Chinese medicine dried seahorses in the traditional Chinese medicine market using DNA barcoding. ''Mitochondrial DNA Early View'': 1–6. * IUCN. 2017. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2017-3. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 7 December 2017). * Lawson, J M., Foster, S.J. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2017. Low bycatch rates add up to big numbers for a genus of small fishes. Fisheries 42(1): 19–33. * Lim, A.C.O., Chong, V.C., Wong, C.S. and Choo, C.K. 2011. Diversity, habitats and conservation threats of syngnathid (Syngnathidae) fishes in Malaysia. ''Tropical Zoology'' 24: 193–222. * Lourie, S.A. 2016. ''Seahorses: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species''. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 160 pp. * Lourie, S.A., Pollom, R.A. and Foster, S.J. 2016. A global revision of the seahorses Hippocampus Rafinesque 1810 (Actinopterygii: Syngnathiformes): Taxonomy and biogeography with recommendations for future research. ''Zootaxa'' 4146(1): 1–66. * Lourie, S.A., Vincent, A.C.J. and Hall, H.J. 1999. Seahorses: an identification guide to the world's species and their conservation. Project Seahorse, London, U.K. * Marcus, J.E., Samoilys, M.A., Meeuwig, J.J., Villongco, Z.A.D. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2007. Benthic status of near-shore fishing grounds in the central Philippines and associated seahorse densities. ''Marine Pollution Bulletin'' 54(9): 1483–1494. * Morgan, S.K. 2007. The ontogoenetic ecology and conservation of exploited tropical seahorses. Department of Biology, McGill University. * O'Donnell, K.P., Pajaro, M.G. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2010. How does the accuracy of fisher knowledge affect seahorse conservation status? ''Animal Conservation'' 13(6): 526–533. * Perante, N.C., Pajaro, M.G., Meeuwig, J.J. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2002. Biology of a seahorse species ''Hippocampus'' comes in the central Philippines. ''Journal of Fish Biology'' 60: 821–837. * Short, F.T., Polidoro, B., Livingston, S.R., Carpenter, K.E., Bandeira, S., Bujang, J.S., Calumpong, H.P., Carruthers, T.J.B., Coles, R.G., Dennison, W.C., Erftemeijer, P.L.A., Fortes, M.D., Freeman, A.S., Jagtap, T.G., Kamal, A.H.M., Kendrick, G.A., Kenworthy, W.J., Nafie, Y.A.L., Nasution, I.M., Orth, R.J., Prathep, A., Sanciango, J.C., van Tussenbroek, Vergara, S.G., Waycott, M. and Zieman, J.C. B., 2011. Extinction risk assessment of the world's seagrass species. ''Biological Conservation'' 144(7): 1961–1971. * UNEP-WCMC. 2012a. CITES trade statistics derived from the CITES Trade Database. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. * UNEP-WCMC. 2012b. Review of Significant Trade: Species selected by the CITES Animals Committee following CoP15. * UNEP-WCMC. 2016. CITES Trade Database. Cambridge, UK. Available at: http://trade.cites.org/ (accessed 2016) * Vincent, A.C.J. 1996. The International Trade in Seahorses. TRAFFIC International, Cambridge, UK. * Vincent, A.C.J. and Sadler, L.M. 1995. Faithful pair bonds in wild seahorses, ''Hippocampus whitei''. ''Animal Behaviour'' 50: 1557–1569. * Vincent, A.C.J., Evans, K.L. and Marsden, A.D. 2005. Home ranges of the monogamous Australian seahorse, ''Hippocampus whitei''. ''Environmental Biology of Fishes'' 72: 1–12. * Vincent, A.C.J., Foster, S.J. and Koldewey, H.J. 2011. Conservation and management of seahorses and other Syngnathidae. ''Journal of Fish Biology'' 78: 1681–1724. * Vincent, A.C.J., Sadovy, Y.J., Fowler, S.L. and Lieberman, S. 2013. The role of CITES in the conservation of marine fishes subject to international trade. ''Fish and Fisheries'' 41. * Williams, S.L., Janetski, N., Abbott, J., Blankenhorn, S., Cheng, B., Crafton, R.E., Hameed, S.O., Rapi, S. and Trockel, D. 2014. Ornamental marine species culture in the Coral Triangle: seahorse demonstration project in the Spermonde Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia. ''Environmental Management'' 54(6): 1342–1355.External links
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q2673554 Hippocampus (genus) Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Taxa named by Robert Earl Richardson Fish described in 1908 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot