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Citizen contributions provided new information on 10 of 17 seahorse species and helped update knowledge about the geographic distribution of nine species, researchers found. Some of the observations even helped scientists better understand when and how seahorses breed.
The iSeahorse project asks the public to record seahorse sightings and observe the animals’ behavior.
“Seahorses are very much the sort of fascinating species that benefit from community science, as they are cryptic enough to make even formal research challenging,” said Heather Koldewey, the project’s co-founder.
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