Resources

Recruit other citizen scientists

Are your friends or family going on a seaside holiday? Do you belong to a dive club? Know some seahorse enthusiasts?
Spread the word about iSeahorse, download a few items:

• iSeahorse Promotional Poster (English | Portuguese | Spanish)
• Fact Sheet about iSeahorse (English | Spanish)
• Fun Facts about seahorses (English| Portuguese| Spanish)
• iSeahorse sticker

Introduction to iSeahorse

Browse seahorse resources

Browse our collection of seahorse-related articles/books on topics ranging from seahorse biology and conservation to aquaculture and trade. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Drop us a line at iseahorse@projectseahorse.org.

Life history, ecology

• Life history and ecology of seahorses: implications for conservation and management (2004)
• A guide to the identification of seahorses (2004)
• A global revision of the seahorses: taxonomy and biogeography with recommendations for further research (2016)
• Hippocampes: Une famille d’excentriques. Book (French) by Patrick Louisy (2019)
• Poseidon’s Steed. Book by Helen Scales (2010)
• Seahorses: A life-size guide to every species. Book by Sara Lourie (2016)

Conservation & management

• Conservation and management of seahorses and other Syngnathidae (2011)
• A global review of seahorse aquaculture (2010)

Quick Links to the Toolkits & ID guides

Underwater seahorse population monitoring

Toolkit components and datasheets:

• Online Training Course. Learn the ins and outs of seahorse population monitoring in our free, fun & quick online course. Highly recommended.
• Underwater Trends Manual (English | Thai) (PDF). Your how-to guide. Please read before getting started.
• Underwater Survey Summary Handout (English | Thai) (PDF). Print this and take it with you into the field for easy reference.
• Underwater Site Datasheet (English | Thai ) (PDF). Use this to record your site data in the field. Then submit your site data to iSeahorse using this Word document (English | Thai).
• Underwater Survey Datasheet (English| Thai ) (PDF). Use this to record your survey data in the field. Then submit your survey data to iSeahorse using this Excel spreadsheet (English | Thai).

Surveying seahorse landings

Toolkit components and datasheets:

• iSeahorse Landings Trends Manual (English) (PDF). Your how-to guide. Please read before getting started. (Includes site and survey datasheets, below.)
• iSeahorse Landings Site Datasheet (English) (PDF). Use this to submit your site information to iSeahorse.
• iSeahorse Landings Survey Datasheet (English) (PDF). Use this to record your data in the field.

Seahorse ID guides

• ID Guide for Large Seahorses in SE Asia (English |Simplified Chinese |Khmer | Malay | Thai ).
• ID Guide for SE Asian Seahorses (English | Simplified Chinese |  Bahasa Indonesian | Thai | Vietnamese ).
• ID guide for Eastern Atlantic Seahorses (English).
• ID guide for Seahorses of the Americas (English | Spanish ).

[Updated 24 July 2023]