{"id":30911,"date":"2023-03-05T03:51:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30911"},"modified":"2025-04-16T00:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:24:17","slug":"great-seahorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/great-seahorse\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Seahorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Great Seahorse:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Great seahorses can be found in relatively deep waters.<\/li>\n<li>These are <strong>ovoviviparous<\/strong> and the <strong>males give birth to live young.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They also have some traits, such <strong>as small body size, fast growth and high fecundity<\/strong>, that may confer resilience to high levels of exploitation\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>There are 46 known species of seahorses worldwide. India&#8217;s coastal ecosystems are home to nine of the twelve species found in the <strong>Indo-Pacific<\/strong>, which is a hotspot for seahorse populations.<\/li>\n<li>They are distributed across diverse ecosystems such as <strong>seagrass, mangroves, macroalgal beds, and coral reefs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These nine species are distributed along the coasts of <strong>eight States and five Union Territories from Gujarat to Odisha<\/strong>, apart from Lakshadweep and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>poor swimmers but migrate to new habitats by rafting<\/strong> (clinging to floating substrata such as macroalgae or plastic debris for dispersal by ocean currents) to ensure the survival of their population.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conservation status<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>IUCN: Vulnerable<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CITES:<\/strong> <strong>Appendix II<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are coral reefs?<\/h3>\n<p>Coral reefs are large underwater structures composed of the skeletons of colonial marine invertebrates called coral<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/great-seahorses-fleeing-coromandel-coast-due-to-overfishing\/article66575776.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>With overfishing, great seahorses bolt from the Coromandel<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great seahorses found in relatively deep waters, are ovoviviparous species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}