Tropical Eastern Pacific
The Tropical Eastern Pacific is one of the twelve
It includes a number of oceanic islands and oceanic island groups like the Galápagos Islands, Revillagigedo Islands, Cocos Island, and Clipperton Island. Clipperton has been labelled as a meeting point between the Oceanian realm and the Tropical Eastern Pacific realm.[2] The Galápagos Islands are also believed to have much higher percentages of Indo-West Pacific species in their marine faunas when compared to the continental American coasts.[3][4] A 2018 study revealed interconnectivity of species between the Line Islands, Hawaii and Clipperton, as well as interconnectivity between the Galápagos Islands and Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.[5] The study identified the Northern Galápagos Islands as a "critical stepping-stone connecting the Central Pacific and Eastern Pacific."[5]
The
Ecoregions
- Tropical East Pacific Marine Province
- GalápagosMarine Province
References
- ^ S2CID 29150840.
- S2CID 41906452.
- ^ Robertson, Robert (1977). "Heliacus trochoides: An Indo-West-Pacific Architectonicid Newly Found in the Eastern Pacific (Mainland Ecuador)". The Veliger. 19 (1): 13–18.
- ^ Brusca, Richard C. (1 September 1987). "Biogeographic Relationships of Galapagos Marine Isopod Crustaceans". Bulletin of Marine Science. 41 (2): 268–281.
- ^ PMID 29921956.