SPOTLIGHT ON THE SEAHORSE
We are honoured to have some of the world’s most talented photographers joining us in Singapore at ADEX 2016 in celebration of the seahorse!
Here, some of these internationally-celebrated shooters reveal these miniature wonders in all their glory, and invite you to come and listen to their unique takes on the world of image-making.
For the full ADEX 2016 schedules, presentation topics and photographer biographies, flip to pages 14 and 15.
15 Hippocampus algiricus (West African seahorse) Atlantic Ocean, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal & Sierra Leone.
16 Hippocampus angustus (Narrow-bellied seahorse) Australia
17 Hippocampus biocellatus (False-eyed seahorse) Shark Bay, Western Australia 18 Hippocampus borboniensis (Réunion seahorse) Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, South Africa & Tanzania 19 Hippocampus breviceps
(Short-snouted seahorse) Australia 20 Hippocampus camelopardalis (Giraffe seahorse) Mozambique, South Africa & Tanzania
21 Hippocampus capensis (Knysna seahorse) South Africa (mainly Knysna Lagoon and surrounding area)
22 Hippocampus colemani (Coleman’s pygmy Seahorse) Australia
23 Hippocampus coronatus (Crowned seahorse) Japan 24 Hippocampus curvicuspis (New Caledonian thorny seahorse) New Caledonia
25 Hippocampus debelius
(Soft-coral seahorse) Egypt
26 Hippocampus erectus (Lined seahorse)
East coast of America
27 Hippocampus fisheri (Fisher’s seahorse) Hawaiian Islands, Australia and New Caledonia 28 Hippocampus fuscus (Sea pony)
Djibouti, India, Saudi Arabia & Sri Lanka 29 Hippocampus grandiceps (Big-head seahorse) Gulf of Carpentaria in Northern Australia
30 Hippocampus guttulatus (Spiny seahorse) Northeast Atlantic (up to and including the Shetland Isles), including the Mediterranean and Black Sea 31 Hippocampus hendriki (Eastern spiny seahorse) Queensland, Australia 32 Hippocampus hippocampus (Shortsnouted seahorse) Northeast Atlantic
(up to and including the Shetland Isles), including the Mediterranean and Black Sea 33 Hippocampus ingens (Pacific seahorse) Galápagos Islands Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, & USA 34 Hippocampus jayakari (Jayakar’s seahorse) Israel Oman & Pakistan
35 Hippocampus jugumus (Collared seahorse) Australia
36 Hippocampus lichtensteinii (Lichtenstein’s seahorse) Western Indian Ocean & Red Sea 37 Hippocampus minotaur (Bullneck seahorse) Australia
38 Hippocampus mohnikei (Japanese seahorse) Japan & Vietnam
39 Hippocampus montebelloensis (Monte Bello seahorse) Montebello Islands and Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia. 40 Hippocampus multispinus (Northern spiny seahorse) Australia
41 Hippocampus paradoxus (Paradoxical seahorse) Western Australia, only one of its kind has been found
42 Hippocampus patagonicus (Patagonian seahorse) Southwest Atlantic Ocean 43 Hippocampus pontohi (Pontohi’s pygmy seahorse) Indo-Pacific Region 44 Hippocampus procerus (High-crown seahorse) Australia
45 Hippocampus pusillus (Pygmy thorny seahorse) New Caledonia, East of Australia
46 Hippocampus queenslandicus (Queensland seahorse) Queensland, Australia 47 Hippocampus reidi (Slender seahorse) Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Panama, USA & Venezuela 48 Hippocampus sindonis
(Dhiho’s seahorse) Japan
49 Hippocampus zosterae (Dwarf seahorse) Bahamas & central eastern coast of North and South America 50 Hippocampus subelongatus (Tiger snout or West Australian seahorse) Australia 51 Hippocampus tyro (Tyro’s seahorse) Seychelles (only one specimen seen) 52 Hippocampus waleananus (Walea pygmy seahorse) Single specimen which was found close to the island Walea. This species is endemic to the Togian Islands in Indonesia
53 Hippocampus whitei (White’s seahorse) Australia
54 Hippocampus zebra (Zebra seahorse) Australia, up to Japan
This list is prepared with reference to the system adopted by Rudie Kuiter, which splits some classifications Gallery image credits: 1 Matthew Smith
2 Rico Besserdich 3 Andrew Marriott 4 Alex Mustard
5 Ivan Manzanares 6 Tim Ho
7 Pasquale Vassallo 8 Patrick Ong 9 Frederick Juneau 10 James Mamoto