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Codium tenue, an aquatic plant, has been found to be a suitable habitat for the Knysna seahorse within Thesen Islands Marina. This project aimed to assess and compare the density and sex structure of the Knysna seahorse within this habitat. Results were also compared to the 2016 assessment of this population. The study ran from March to August 2017 (6 months) at three sites within the marina and the density of seahorses was found to be similar across sites as well as over the six-month period. The overall average density of Hippocampus capensis was found to be 0.32 ± 0.02 seahorses per kilogram of Codium tenue. This density was found to be similar to surveys from 2016. (more…)