A Review - Biology, Aquaculture and Medical Use of Seahorse, Hippocampus spp
Yuan Yuan Zhang
Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing of Aquatic Products of Guangdong Higher Education Institution, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, P. R. China.
Bo-Mi Ryu
School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
Zhong-Ji Qian *
Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing of Aquatic Products of Guangdong Higher Education Institution, College of Food Science and Technology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, P. R. China.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Seahorse has been used as medicine in Asian countries such as China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam for thousands of years. However, in western countries, the ecology of seahorse has been a focus of attention of many researchers for years. The seahorse aquaculture is popular with aqua farm worldwide for the sake of the increased demand of seahorse. This review described the biology, aquaculture and medical use of seahorse. To present the ecology and highlight the role of seahorse in traditional medicine and biomedical properties, this article based on the information collected from scientific literatures from Elsevier, Wiley, Science direct and CNKI.
Keywords: Hippocampus, biology, aquaculture, medical use.