Shore fishes of the Marquesas Islands, an updated checklist with new records and new percentage of endemic species

By

Delrieu -Trottin, Erwan
Williams, Jeffrey T.
Bacchet, Philippe
Kulbicki, Michel
Mourier, Johann
Galzin, René 1950-
Lison De Loma, Thierry
Mou-Tham, Gérard
Siu, Gilles
Planes, Serge

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-10-4

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

1758--13

Subjects

Biodiversity , coral reef fishes , endemism , species distribution , tropical reefs

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1758

 

Abstract

Expedition Pakaihi I Te Moana was conducted in 2011 to the Marquesas Islands, lying between 07°50ʹ S and 10°35ʹ S latitude and 138°25ʹ W and 140°50ʹ W longitude. The expedition combined extensive col-lections and visual censuses of the shore fish fauna. A total of 74 species are added as new records for the Marquesas Islands; the coastal fish fauna of the Marquesas Islands is increased from 415 to 495 species and the number of endemic species is increased from 48 to 68 species. This increases the per-centage of species-level endemism for the Marquesas Islands to 13.7%, ranking as the third highest region of endemism for coral reef fishes in the Indo-Pacific. Only two other peripheral regions, the Hawai’ian Islands and Easter Island, have higher values.