Table 2. Shallow-water zoogeographic areas analyzed, compared with MeoW provinces and regions [43].

Analyzed areas	Provinces [43]	Realms [43]
N Atlantic	2, 3, 5	Temperate N Atlantic
Mediterranean	4, 7	Temperate N Atlantic
Caribbean GoM	6, 12	Temperate N Atlantic/Tropical Atlantic
W Pacific	8, 9, 28, 29, 31	Temperate N Pacific/Central Indo-Pacific
SW Atlantic	14, 47	Temperate South America
NW Indian Ocean	18, 19, 21	Western Indo-Pacific
SW Indian Ocean	20, 51	Western Indo-Pacific/Temperate Southern Africa
NE Indian Ocean	23, 24	Western Indo-Pacific
S China Sea	25	Central Indo-Pacific
Indonesia-Malaya	26, 27, 30	Central Indo-Pacific
N Australia	32, 33, 34	Central Indo-Pacific
Equatorial Pacific	35, 37 to 42	Eastern Indo-Pacific
S Australia	55, 56, 57	Temperate Australasia
New Zealand	53, 54	Temperate Australasia
Subantarctic	48, 59, 60, 62	Temperate S America/Southern Ocean
Antarctic	61	Southern Ocean