UNDER CONSTRUCTION
This province covers the following ecoregions:
Ecoregion | Coverage | Faunistic works |
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62. Bermudan | Bermuda | Anonymous, 1978 (protected species). |
63. Bahamian | Bahamas and the Bimini chain of Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands. | Redfern, 2001, 2013 (Abaco, Bahamas) |
64. Eastern Caribbean | Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Martin/St. Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbuda, St. John's, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada. | Paulmier, 2007, 2014, 2015 (French Antilles). |
65. Greater Antilles | Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. | Abbott, 1958 (Grand Cayman Island): Humphrey, 1975 (Jamaica). |
66. Southern Caribbean | Guajira District coastline, Colombia and Venezuelan coastline as well as several offshore islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Los Roques, Margarita) nearby. | Coomans, 1958, De Jong & Coomans, 1988 (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao); Daccarett & Bossio, 2011 (Colombia). |
67. Southwestern Caribbean | Remaining Colombian coastline, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and NE Honduras. | Petuch, 1981 (Venezuela and Colombia); Daccarett & Bossio, 2011 (Colombia). |
68. Western Caribbean | NW Honduras, Belize, and Quintana Roo coastline of Yucatan, Mexico. | Vokes & Vokes, 1983 (Yucatan shallow water molluscs). |
69. Southern Gulf of Mexico | Remaining Caribbean coastline of Mexico to the USA border. | Vokes & Vokes, 1983 (Yucatan shallow water molluscs); Rosenberg, Moretzsohn & Garcia, 2009 (Gulf of Mexico species list). |
70. Floridian | Florida Keys and the southern tip of Florida. | Petuch & Sargent, 2011, 2012 (Florida Keys). |
Each ecoregion has its own specific species composition with many endemic species and therefor its ow sub-page.
Several alternative divisions of this province were proposed. Diaz (1995) divided the Southern Caribbean ecoregion into two subprovinces: the Samarian-Venezuelan subrovince and the Goajira subprovince.
Faunistic works (whole province): Petuch (2013)