Check List 13(6): 993-996, doi: 10.15560/13.6.993
Direct observation of drifting juvenile seahorse Hippocampus trimaculatus (Leach, 1814) beneath the offshore surface at Malacca Strait
Nur Leena Wai Sin Wong‡, Jun Chin Teh‡‡ Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia
Corresponding author: Nur Leena Wai Sin Wong ( nurleena@upm.edu.my ) Academic editor: Arturo Angulo © 2017 Nur Leena Wai Sin Wong, Jun Chin Teh. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Wong NLWS, Teh JC (2017) Direct observation of drifting juvenile seahorse Hippocampus trimaculatus (Leach, 1814) beneath the offshore surface at Malacca Strait. Check List 13(6): 993-996. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.6.1 |  |
Abstract
Three drifting juvenile seahorses (100.3 mm, 89.5 mm, and 55.8 mm in height) were captured during 2 research surveys between shipping routes at Malacca Strait. All seahorse specimens were identified using morphometric data as Hippocampus trimaculatus Leach, 1814. This is the first direct observation of drifting H. trimaculatus seahorse near to the water surface, out of their reported water depth (10–100 m) and demersal habitats. This may provide evidence of translocation and long-distance dispersal of H. trimaculatus in the region.
Keywords
Southeast Asia; flat-faced seahorse; dispersive mechanism; migration