Pair of Vintage Seahorse Skeletons, 5" x 2" x .5" Purchased from a Private Seashell Collectors Estate Sale we find them exceptionally beautiful and rare vintage specimans. Seahorse Skeletons are becoming rare in they marketplace as they are among the last of their kind for sale, especially this size. Overharvesting has made them rare and some on endangered pieces list.
DIMENSIONS: 5" x 2" x .5"
MATERIALS: Natural Seahorse Skeleton
HISTORY & FACTS: In late 2016, CITES, a multilateral treaty governing trade in plants and animals, completely banned the trade of Hippocampus algiricus due to Senegal's failure to improve meets its obligations. Earlier that year, the international body had restricted exports of all seahorses to those sourced sustainably and legally due to their declining numbers — a quarter of the around 40 seahorses species are listed as vulnerable or endangered. The West African variety is among those.
Twelve seahorse species are listed as “vulnerable” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, one step down from endangered. An additional 17 species are understudied, and listed as “data deficient.” Two are endangered.
In 2002, an international treaty called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, responded to mounting concerns by tightening trade restrictions on all 44 species of seahorse. But scientists say that existing measures don’t go far enough.
