Hippocampus zebra

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	SYNGNATHIFORMES	SYNGNATHIDAE

Scientific Name:

Hippocampus zebra

Species Authority:

Whitley, 1964

Common Name/s:

English

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Zebra Seahorse

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Data Deficient ver 3.1
Year Published:	2002
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Project Seahorse
Reviewer/s:	Lafrance, P., Lourie, S., Marsden, D. & Vincent, A.C.J. (Syngnathid Red List Authority)
Contributor/s:
Justification: This species is known only from type specimens (Lourie et al. 1999). Appropriate data on biology and ecology, habitat, abundance and distribution are not available. Further research is needed.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	H. zebra is endemic to Australia (Lourie et al. 1999).
Countries:	Native: Australia (Queensland)
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Pacific – western central
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Population [top]

Population Trend:	Unknown

Population Trend:

Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This species may be particularly susceptible to decline. All seahorse species have vital parental care, and many species studied to date have high site fidelity (Perante et al. 2002, Vincent et al. in review), highly structured social behaviour (Vincent and Sadler 1995) and relatively sparse distributions (Lourie et al. 1999). The importance of life history parameters in determining response to exploitation has been demonstrated for a number of species (Jennings et al. 1998).
Systems:	Marine

Habitat and Ecology:

This species may be particularly susceptible to decline. All seahorse species have vital parental care, and many species studied to date have high site fidelity (Perante et al. 2002, Vincent et al. in review), highly structured social behaviour (Vincent and Sadler 1995) and relatively sparse distributions (Lourie et al. 1999). The importance of life history parameters in determining response to exploitation has been demonstrated for a number of species (Jennings et al. 1998).

Systems:

Marine

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	This species was moved under the Australian Wildlife Protection Act in 1998. It is listed on CITES Appendix II. Further research on this species is needed

Conservation Actions:

This species was moved under the Australian Wildlife Protection Act in 1998. It is listed on CITES Appendix II. Further research on this species is needed

Citation:	Project Seahorse 2002. Hippocampus zebra. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2013.
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