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These impacts on the marine environment include ocean acidification, ocean warming, habitat loss, eutrophication of near shore waters, overfishing and several other stressors that are placing great pressure on biodiversity and ecosystem function, which is eroding ecosystem goods and services. In the Western Indian Ocean, we are today observing such losses of key habitats, with high records of coral bleaching, loss of mangrove forests, and large areas of seagrass meadows disappearing because of poor or non-existent management programs. Mauritius is not an exception, with seagrasses disappearing on a similar rate compared to other areas around the world, with a potential significant decline of marine biodiversity. This is of particular concern based on the many goods and services seagrasses provide to coastal inhabitants of Mauritius, and in particular the high number of economically important fish species supporting the local coastal inhabitants. It is therefore critical that our understanding of the presence and nature of these species is enhanced. To this end, a new revolutionary technique which is fast and relatively cost effective, has recently been developed to examine environmental DNA (eDNA) in marine environments to better capture the presence of species and ecosystem biodiversity. In this study, I used the eDNA metabarcoding technique to examine two lagoons, north and south around Mauritius Island, and to examine seagrass associated species, which was used to obtain information about the seagrass ecosystem function and potential ecosystem services. With eDNA metabarcoding, I was able to discover not only 26 completely new species, 14 genera and two families not before identified for Mauritius – but one species never recorded in the Western Indian Ocean. The study also identified a large number of economically important fish species, exploited elsewhere, but not recognised as a resource of protein in Mauritius. 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