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Advances in life-history knowledge for 35 seahorse species from community science

  • 1. Project Seahorse, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada & Seahorse, Pipefish, and Seadragon Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland, Switzerland
  • 2. Seahorse, Pipefish, and Seadragon Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Gland, Switzerland & Project Seahorse, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, UK

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Camins, Elsa, Stanton, Lily M., Correia, Miguel, Foster, Sarah J., Koldewey, Heather J., Vincent, Amanda C. J. (2024): Advances in life-history knowledge for 35 seahorse species from community science. Journal of Fish Biology 104 (5): 1548-1565, DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15699, URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15699

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