Police in Peru have seized more than 16,000 dried seahorses, destined to be exported illegally to Asian countries where they are in demand for Chinese medicines and as an alleged aphrodisiac. Peruvian authorities say the illicit cargo was worth a quarter of a million dollars. Sea horses are recognised internationally as an endangered species and catching them is illegal in Peru

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Seahorse is the title given to forty-seven species of marine fish in the genus Hippocampus. "Hippocampus" comes from the Ancient Greek hippos meaning "horse" and kampos meaning "sea monster