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 |