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DÁVALOS, LILIANA M. "Phylogeny and biogeography of Caribbean mammals." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 81, no. 3 (March 10, 2004): 373–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00302.x.

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Page, R. "Towards a Cladistic Biogeography of the Caribbean." Cladistics 10, no. 1 (March 1994): 21–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/clad.1994.1002.

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Hedges, S. "Reply: Towards a Biogeography of the Caribbean." Cladistics 10, no. 1 (March 1994): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/clad.1994.1003.

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Page, Roderic D. M., and Charles Lydeard. "TOWARDS A CLADISTIC BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN." Cladistics 10, no. 1 (July 19, 2005): 21–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.1994.tb00162.x.

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Hedges, S. Blair, Carla Ann Hass, and Linda R. Maxson. "REPLY: TOWARDS A BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN." Cladistics 10, no. 1 (July 19, 2005): 43–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.1994.tb00163.x.

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Sandin, Stuart A., Mark J. A. Vermeij, and Allen H. Hurlbert. "Island biogeography of Caribbean coral reef fish." Global Ecology and Biogeography 17, no. 6 (November 2008): 770–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00418.x.

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Rauchenberger, Mary. "Historical Biogeography of Poeciliid Fishes in the Caribbean." Systematic Zoology 37, no. 4 (December 1988): 356. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2992198.

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Rauchenberger, M. "Historical Biogeography of Poeciliid Fishes in the Caribbean." Systematic Biology 37, no. 4 (December 1, 1988): 356–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/37.4.356.

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McHugh, Anne, Carol Yablonsky, Greta Binford, and Ingi Agnarsson. "Molecular phylogenetics of Caribbean Micrathena (Araneae : Araneidae) suggests multiple colonisation events and single island endemism." Invertebrate Systematics 28, no. 4 (2014): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is13051.

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The terrestrial biota of the Caribbean islands includes many lineages, some whose presence on the islands dates back some 35–40 million years ago, when land bridges are thought to have linked islands to continents, and others that have colonised more recently via dispersal. The New World spiny orb-weavers (Micrathena Sundevall, 1833) are a diverse group of mostly Neotropical spiders. Eight species have been described on the Greater Antilles islands: three widespread and five single island endemics. Here, using three molecular markers (16S rRNA, ITS-2 and COI) we provide a preliminary phylogenetic test of the taxonomy and biogeography of Caribbean Micrathena through the first molecular phylogeny of the genus. Our analyses support monophyly of the genus, but not that of Caribbean Micrathena with at least 3–4 colonisations from South America. We sampled six of the eight nominal Caribbean species (M. banksi, M. cubana, M. similis, M. forcipata, M. horrida, M. militaris), but demark eight divergent genetic lineages that all are single island endemics, and morphologically distinct. Thus a revision of the taxonomy of Caribbean Micrathena is needed. Our results function foremost to guide more thorough taxon sampling of Micrathena that enable more rigorous assessments of its diversity and biogeography in the Caribbean.

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Wyatt Durham, J. "Movement of the Caribbean plate and its importance for biogeography in the Caribbean." Geology 13, no. 2 (1985): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1985)13<123:motcpa>2.0.co;2.

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Lim, Burton K. "Review of genetic diversification of bats in the Caribbean and biogeographic relationships to Neotropical species based on DNA barcodes." Genome 60, no. 1 (January 2017): 65–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/gen-2015-0204.

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DNA barcoding is helping in discovering high levels of cryptic species and an underestimation of biodiversity in many groups of organisms. Although mammals are arguably the most studied and one of the least speciose taxonomic classes, the rate of species discovery is increasing and biased for small mammals on islands. An earlier study found bats in the Caribbean as a taxonomic and geographic deficiency in the International Barcode of Life initiative to establish a genetic reference database to enable specimen identification to species. Recent surveys in Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Martinique have documented and barcoded half of the 58 bat species known from the Caribbean. I analyze all available barcode data of Caribbean bats to investigate biogeography and cryptic species in the Neotropical region. Analysis of the mitochondrial DNA gene cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 results in a phylogenetic tree with all but one species as well-supported and reciprocally monophyletic. With a broader sampling across the Neotropics, there are also divergent lineages that exhibit biogeographic structuring: (i) a phylogenetic split between northern and southern Dominican Republic in three species, (ii) two taxa with cryptic species associated with higher degree of island endemism, (iii) populations of two widely distributed species with deep divergence between the Caribbean and North and Central America, and (iv) one species in the Caribbean with affinities to taxa in South America.

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SCHOOLS, MOLLY, and S. BLAIR HEDGES. "Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the Neotropical forest lizards (Squamata, Diploglossidae)." Zootaxa 4974, no. 2 (May 20, 2021): 201–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4974.2.1.

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Lizards of the family Diploglossidae occur in moist, tropical forests of Middle America, South America, and Caribbean islands. Our analyses based on new molecular and morphological data indicate that the widely distributed genera Celestus Gray, 1839 and Diploglossus Wiegmann, 1834 are paraphyletic. We restrict the former to Caribbean islands and the latter to South America and Caribbean islands. We assign species in Middle America, formerly placed in Celestus and Diploglossus, to Advenus gen. nov., Mesoamericus gen. nov., and Siderolamprus Cope, 1861. We assign species on Caribbean islands, formerly placed in Celestus, to Caribicus gen. nov., Comptus gen. nov., Celestus, Panolopus Cope, 1862, Sauresia Gray, 1852, and Wetmorena Cochran, 1927. Our phylogenetic tree supports three major clades in the family: Celestinae subfam. nov. (Advenus gen. nov., Caribicus gen. nov., Comptus gen. nov., Celestus, Panolopus, Sauresia, and Wetmorena), Diploglossinae (Diploglossus and Ophiodes Wagler, 1828), and Siderolamprinae subfam. nov. (Mesoamericus gen. nov. and Siderolamprus). Our timetree indicates that the diploglossid lineage originated in the early Cenozoic and established three major centers of diversification in the Americas: Middle America (siderolamprines and one celestine), South America (diploglossines), and Caribbean islands (celestines and diploglossines). The majority of threatened species are on Caribbean islands, with the major threats being deforestation and predation by the introduced mongoose. Molecular and morphological data indicate that there are many undescribed species in this family of lizards.

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Betancur-R., Ricardo, Andrew Hines, Arturo Acero P., Guillermo Ortí, Ami E. Wilbur, and D. Wilson Freshwater. "Reconstructing the lionfish invasion: insights into Greater Caribbean biogeography." Journal of Biogeography 38, no. 7 (March 31, 2011): 1281–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02496.x.

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Phillips, Burton, Womack, Pulver, and Nicholson. "Biogeography, Systematics, and Ecomorphology of Pacific Island Anoles." Diversity 11, no. 9 (August 21, 2019): 141. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d11090141.

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: Anoles are regarded as important models for understanding dynamic processes in ecology and evolution. Most work on this group has focused on species in the Caribbean Sea, and recently in mainland South and Central America. However, the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) is home to seven species of anoles from three unique islands (Islas Cocos, Gorgona, and Malpelo) that have been largely overlooked. Four of these species are endemic to single islands (Norops townsendi on Isla Cocos, Dactyloa agassizi on Isla Malpelo, D. gorgonae and N. medemi on Isla Gorgona). Herein, we present a phylogenetic analysis of anoles from these islands in light of the greater anole phylogeny to estimate the timing of divergence from mainland lineages for each species. We find that two species of solitary anoles (D. agassizi and N. townsendi) diverged from mainland ancestors prior to the emergence of their respective islands. We also present population-wide morphological data suggesting that both display sexual size dimorphism, similar to single-island endemics in the Caribbean. All lineages on Isla Gorgona likely arose during past connections with South America, and ecologically partition their habitat. Finally, we highlight the importance of conservation of these species and island fauna in general.

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Kaiser, Hinrich, Timothy F. Sharbel, and David M. Green. "Systematics and biogeography of eastern Caribbean Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae): evidence from allozymes." Amphibia-Reptilia 15, no. 4 (1994): 375–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853894x00416.

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AbstractAllozyme evidence shows that eastern Caribbean Eleutherodactylus assort into two distinct lineages. Species from northern islands (E. barlagnei, E. johnstonei, E. martinicensis, E. pinchoni, and Eleutherodactylus sp. A from Dominica) are a monophyletic group of Greater Antillean origin, whereas species from the southern islands (E. euphronides, E. shrevei, E. urichi) have South American affinities. Phenetic and cladistic analyses support sister-group relationships for E. barlagnei and E. pinchoni, and for E. euphronides and E. shrevei. Eleutherodactylus sp. A, E. martinicensis, and E. johnstonei are each other's closest relatives, but further resolution within this clade is confounded by their great biochemical similarity. The dual origin of eastern Caribbean Eleutherodactylus is best explained by "jump" dispersal, at least once from the Greater Antilles and once from northern South America. Dispersal from South America was most plausibly facilitated by the historic presence of a land bridge between Trinidad, Tobago and the Paria Peninsula of northern South America, and by rafting of individuals during the annual rainy season discharge of the Orinoco River into the Caribbean Sea.

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Dawson, J. "Biogeography of azooxanthellate corals in the Caribbean and surrounding areas." Coral Reefs 21, no. 1 (March 5, 2002): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-001-0207-4.

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Wagner, H. P. "Stygiomysis aemete n. sp., a new subterranean mysid (Crustacea, Mysidacea, Stygiomysidae) from the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola." Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 62, no. 2 (1992): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26660644-06202002.

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During the Amsterdam Expedition to the Dominican Republic a new Stygiomysis species, S. aemete, was captured in a well about 5 km east of the Haitian border in the Pedernales Province. Its relation to the other Caribbean Stygiomysis species as well as the biogeography of the genus is discussed.

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Blackburn, David C., Rachel M. Keeffe, María C. Vallejo-Pareja, and Jorge Vélez-Juarbe. "The earliest record of Caribbean frogs: a fossil coquí from Puerto Rico." Biology Letters 16, no. 4 (April 2020): 20190947. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0947.

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The nearly 200 species of direct-developing frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus (the Caribbean landfrogs, which include the coquís) comprise an important lineage for understanding the evolution and historical biogeography of the Caribbean. Time-calibrated molecular phylogenies provide indirect evidence for the processes that shaped the modern anuran fauna, but there is little direct evidence from the fossil record of Caribbean frogs about their distributions in the past. We report a distal humerus of a frog from the Oligocene (approx. 29 Ma) of Puerto Rico that represents the earliest known fossil frog from any Caribbean island. Based on its prominent rounded distal humeral head, distally projecting entepicondyle, and reduced ectepicondyle, we refer it to the genus Eleutherodactylus . This fossil provides additional support for an early arrival of some groups of terrestrial vertebrates to the Greater Antilles and corroborates previous estimates based on molecular phylogenies suggesting that this diverse Caribbean lineage was present in the islands by the mid-Cenozoic.

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Petuch, Edward, and David Berschauer. "New Gastropods from Texas, the Western Caribbean, and Southern Brazil." Festivus 52, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.54173/f522173.

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For inclusion within a new reference text on marine molluscan biogeography, four new gastropods are described here in anticipation of the publication of the book. These include: Stramonita alderi n. sp. (Muricidae) from the Texan Subprovince, Carolinian Province; Turritella (Torcula) howardpetersi n. sp. (Turritellidae) and Prunum sunderlandorum n. sp. (Marginellidae) from the Nicaraguan Subprovince, Caribbean Province; and Charonia marylenae n. sp. Charoniidae) from the Janeiran Subprovince, Paulinian Province.

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Lewis, Delano S., Felix A. H. Sperling, Shinichi Nakahara, Adam M. Cotton, Akito Y. Kawahara, and Fabien L. Condamine. "Role of Caribbean Islands in the diversification and biogeography of NeotropicalHeraclidesswallowtails." Cladistics 31, no. 3 (July 23, 2014): 291–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12092.

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Hedges, S. B., C. A. Hass, and L. R. Maxson. "Caribbean biogeography: molecular evidence for dispersal in West Indian terrestrial vertebrates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 89, no. 5 (March 1, 1992): 1909–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.5.1909.

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Iturralde-Vinent, Manuel A. "Meso-Cenozoic Caribbean Paleogeography: Implications for the Historical Biogeography of the Region." International Geology Review 48, no. 9 (September 2006): 791–827. http://dx.doi.org/10.2747/0020-6814.48.9.791.

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Robertson, D. Ross, and Katie L. Cramer. "Defining and Dividing the Greater Caribbean: Insights from the Biogeography of Shorefishes." PLoS ONE 9, no. 7 (July 23, 2014): e102918. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102918.

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Tucker, Derek B., Stephen Blair Hedges, Guarino R. Colli, Robert Alexander Pyron, and Jack W. Sites. "Genomic timetree and historical biogeography of Caribbean island ameiva lizards (Pholidoscelis: Teiidae)." Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 17 (August 1, 2017): 7080–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3157.

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Johnson, Claudia C. "Cretaceous Caribbean paleobiogeography: a comparison of the generic and species distributions of rudist bivalves in light of dispersal versus vicariance biogeography." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200007127.

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A dynamic interplay of tectonics and eustasy controlled the development and distribution of Cretaceous carbonate platforms, and subsequently influenced patterns of gene flow among tropical reef-forming rudist bivalves of the Caribbean Province. Mediterranean faunas first entered the Caribbean during the Valanginian, via trans-Atlantic larval drift. Larval drift distance was exceeded during the mid-Cretaceous opening of the Atlantic, and resulted in isolation of rudist gene pools and an Albian burst of endemism, the first of two for the Cretaceous. Following a Cenomanian, Turonian and Coniacian diversity drop, Caribbean endemism climbed again during the Santonian, Campanian and Maastrichtian. This second explosion of endemism is attributed, in part, to vicariance biogeography as Caribbean terranes split and became isolated, and in part to biotic factors (competition, niche partitioning) as terranes collided when the Caribbean plate moved eastward from its Pacific Ocean origin. Paleobiogeographic maps were compiled per stage of the Cretaceous, with substage resolution for the critical Albian, Campanian and Maastrichtian. Data utilized were 58 genera and 214 species of rudist bivalves plotted on Recent mercator projections and on 119, 100, 95, and 80 million year plate tectonic reconstructions. Diversity trends and indices of similarity were analyzed in drawing paleobiogeographic divisions. Generic plots delineated regions of tropical carbonate sedimentation, the northern and southern limits of reef building, and fluctuations of this reef line through time. Generic plots also identified areas with the greatest generic diversity per stage, and defined the timing and regional extent of the postulated Supertethyan climate zone. Paleobiogeographic plots revealed that Tropical reef-building in the Caribbean Province was wholly north of the paleoequator - a major paleoclimatic dilemna. Species plots mimicked those of genera for the Valanginian, Barremian, Turonian, Coniacian, and Santonian, but provided important new details of the movements of terranes, dispersal pathways, and isolation of rudist gene pools for the Aptian, Albian, Cenomanian, Campanian and Maastrichtian. These detailed data, the first to combine Cretaceous Tropical paleontology with Caribbean tectonic reconstructions, provide a framework for testing rates, patterns, and causes of evolution among Tropical bivalves.

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Cronin, Thomas M. "Evolution, Biogeography, and Systematics of Puriana: Evolution and Speciation in Ostracoda, III." Journal of Paleontology 61, S21 (May 1987): 1–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000060856.

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Three types of geographic isolation—land barriers, deep water barriers, and climatic barriers—resulted in three distinct evolutionary responses in Neogene and Quaternary species of the epineritic ostracode genus Puriana. Through systematic, paleobiogeographic, and morphologic study of several hundred fossil and Recent populations from the eastern Pacific, western Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, the phylogeny of the genus and the geography of speciation events were determined. Isolation of large populations by the Isthmus of Panama during the Pliocene did not lead to lineage splitting in species known to have existed before the Isthmus formed. Conversely, the establishment of small isolated populations on Caribbean islands by passive dispersal mechanisms frequently led to the evolution of new species or subspecies. Climatic changes along the southeastern United States during the Pliocene also catalyzed possible parapatric speciation as populations that immigrated to the northeastern periphery of the genus' range split to form new species. The results provide evidence that evolutionary models describing the influence of abiotic events on patterns of evolution and speciation can be tested using properly selected tectonic and climatic events and fossil groups amenable to species-level analysis. Two new species, P. bajaensis and P. paikensis, are described.

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Kennedy, Emma V., Linda Tonk, Nicola L. Foster, Iliana Chollett, Juan-Carlos Ortiz, Sophie Dove, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Peter J. Mumby, and Jamie R. Stevens. "Symbiodinium biogeography tracks environmental patterns rather than host genetics in a key Caribbean reef-builder, Orbicella annularis." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, no. 1842 (November 16, 2016): 20161938. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1938.

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The physiological performance of a reef-building coral is a combined outcome of both the coral host and its algal endosymbionts, Symbiodinium . While Orbicella annularis —a dominant reef-building coral in the Wider Caribbean—is known to be a flexible host in terms of the diversity of Symbiodinium types it can associate with, it is uncertain how this diversity varies across the Caribbean, and whether spatial variability in the symbiont community is related to either O. annularis genotype or environment. Here, we target the Symbiodinium -ITS2 gene to characterize and map dominant Symbiodinium hosted by O. annularis at an unprecedented spatial scale. We reveal northwest–southeast partitioning across the Caribbean, both in terms of the dominant symbiont taxa hosted and in assemblage diversity. Multivariate regression analyses incorporating a suite of environmental and genetic factors reveal that observed spatial patterns are predominantly explained by chronic thermal stress (summer temperatures) and are unrelated to host genotype. Furthermore, we were able to associate the presence of specific Symbiodinium types with local environmental drivers (for example, Symbiodinium C7 with areas experiencing cooler summers, B1j with nutrient loading and B17 with turbidity), associations that have not previously been described.

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Kaiser, Hinrich, David M. Green, and Michael Schmid. "Systematics and biogeography of Eastern Caribbean frogs (Leptodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus), with the description of a new species from Dominica." Canadian Journal of Zoology 72, no. 12 (December 1, 1994): 2217–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z94-297.

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Populations of Eleutherodactylus on the island of Dominica, West Indies, differ from other Lesser Antillean members of the genus by their vocalizations, morphology, sexual size dimorphism, allozymes, and chromosomes. Thus, these populations comprise a new endemic species, closely related to E. johnstonei and E. martinicensis. The new species is most abundant in montane forest habitats at elevations of more than 500 m. Females commonly attain snout–vent lengths of more than 35 mm, making them the largest Lesser Antillean Eleutherodactylus. Frogs are brown during the day, but change color to dark orange when active at night. This species is the ninth Eastern Caribbean Eleutherodactylus species and the fifth single-island endemic. A phylogenetic analysis of external and internal morphological characteristics shows that Eastern Caribbean Eleutherodactylus are members of two distinct clades, one of South American origin, the other of Greater Antillean ancestry. We suggest that the present distribution of these species results from the dispersal of elements of the larger herpetofaunas from the Greater Antilles and South America, and that rapid divergence of the Eastern Caribbean Eleutherodactylus fauna may be continuing. The phylogenetic analysis also confirms that morphological characters of Eleutherodactylus species can be highly homoplastic.

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Réblová, Martina, Miroslav Kolařík, Jana Nekvindová, Andrew N. Miller, and Margarita Hernández-Restrepo. "Phylogeny, Global Biogeography and Pleomorphism of Zanclospora." Microorganisms 9, no. 4 (March 29, 2021): 706. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040706.

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Zanclospora (Chaetosphaeriaceae) is a neglected, phialidic dematiaceous hyphomycete with striking phenotypic heterogeneity among its species. Little is known about its global biogeography due to its extreme scarcity and lack of records verified by molecular data. Phylogenetic analyses of six nuclear loci, supported by phenotypic data, revealed Zanclospora as highly polyphyletic, with species distributed among three distantly related lineages in Sordariomycetes. Zanclospora is a pleomorphic genus with multiple anamorphic stages, of which phaeostalagmus-like and stanjehughesia-like are newly discovered. The associated teleomorphs were previously classified in Chaetosphaeria. The generic concept is emended, and 17 species are accepted, 12 of which have been verified with DNA sequence data. Zanclospora thrives on decaying plant matter, but it also occurs in soil or as root endophytes. Its global diversity is inferred from metabarcoding data and published records based on field observations. Phylogenies of the environmental ITS1 and ITS2 sequences derived from soil, dead wood and root samples revealed seven and 15 phylotypes. The field records verified by DNA data indicate two main diversity centres in Australasia and Caribbean/Central America. In addition, environmental ITS data have shown that Southeast Asia represents a third hotspot of Zanclospora diversity. Our data confirm that Zanclospora is a rare genus.

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Eitam, Avi, John Sivinski, Tim Holler, and Martin Aluja. "Biogeography of Braconid Parasitoids of the Caribbean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Florida." Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97, no. 5 (September 1, 2004): 928–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0928:bobpot]2.0.co;2.

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Lamas, Carlos José Einicker, Silvio Shigueo Nihei, André Mallemont Cunha, and Márcia Souto Couri. "Phylogeny and Biogeography ofHeterostylum(Diptera: Bombyliidae): Evidence for an Ancient Caribbean Diversification Model." Florida Entomologist 97, no. 3 (September 2014): 952–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1653/024.097.0353.

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van Ee, Benjamin W., Paul E. Berry, Ricarda Riina, and Jorge E. Gutiérrez Amaro. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Biogeography of the Caribbean-Centered Croton Subgenus Moacroton (Euphorbiaceae s.s.)." Botanical Review 74, no. 1 (March 2008): 132–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12229-008-9003-y.

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Sandoval, Marissa, and Bernardo F. Santos. "A new species of Grotea Cresson, the first record of Labeninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in the Greater Antilles." Journal of Hymenoptera Research 81 (February 25, 2021): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.81.59769.

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Grotea ambarosasp. nov. is described, illustrated and compared to currently described species of the genus. The new species is characterized mainly by having the mesosoma 2.9× as long as high; genal projection distinct and apically subquadrate; pleural carina distinct only anteriorly to anterior transverse carina; mesosoma almost entirely amber-orange and legs with complex dark brown and white marks. This is the first record of any labenine species for the Greater Antilles; the few distribution records elsewhere in the Caribbean Islands are reviewed and discussed in the context of the biogeography of Labeninae.

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Lavin, Matt, and Angela Beyra Matos. "The Impact of Ecology and Biogeography on Legume Diversity, Endemism, and Phylogeny in the Caribbean Region: A New Direction in Historical Biogeography." Botanical Review 74, no. 1 (March 2008): 178–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12229-008-9006-8.

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Weaver, Pablo F., Alexander Cruz, Steven Johnson, Julia Dupin, and Kathleen F. Weaver. "Colonizing the Caribbean: biogeography and evolution of livebearing fishes of the genus Limia (Poeciliidae)." Journal of Biogeography 43, no. 9 (June 27, 2016): 1808–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12798.

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POINAR, G. O., and D. C. CANNATELLA. "An Upper Eocene Frog from the Dominican Republic and Its Implication for Caribbean Biogeography." Science 237, no. 4819 (September 4, 1987): 1215–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.237.4819.1215.

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Roncal, Julissa, Scott Zona, and Carl E. Lewis. "Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Caribbean Palms (Arecaceae) and Their Relationships to Biogeography and Conservation." Botanical Review 74, no. 1 (March 2008): 78–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12229-008-9005-9.

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Roncal, Julissa, Scott Zona, and Carl E. Lewis. "Molecular Phylogenetic Studies of Caribbean Palms (Arecaceae) and Their Relationships to Biogeography and Conservation." Botanical Review 74, no. 3 (August 22, 2008): 467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12229-008-9015-7.

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Pfingstl, Tobias. "First comprehensive insights into the biogeography of the Caribbean intertidal oribatid mite fauna (Ameronothroidea)." Neotropical Biodiversity 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 102–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23766808.2021.1906136.

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MISTRETTA, BRITTANY A., CHRISTINA M. GIOVAS, MARCELO WEKSLER, and SAMUEL T. TURVEY. "Extinct insular oryzomyine rice rats (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from the Grenada Bank, southern Caribbean." Zootaxa 4951, no. 3 (April 7, 2021): 434–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4951.3.2.

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The Lesser Antillean island chain in the eastern Caribbean formerly supported a diverse rodent fauna including multiple endemic genera of oryzomyine rice rats. The Caribbean rice rats are now all extinct, with most island populations known only from Holocene palaeontological and zooarchaeological material and with many remaining taxonomically undescribed. Rice rat material is reported from several pre-Columbian Ceramic Age (late Holocene) archaeological sites on the Grenada Bank, including sites on Grenada and Carriacou, but the taxonomic identity and diversity of the Grenada Bank rice rats has remained uncertain. We provide a morphology-based description of rice rats from Grenada and Carriacou, and analyze their phylogenetic and biogeographical affinities to other Caribbean and mainland Neotropical oryzomyines. We recognize two taxa from the Grenada Bank: we describe the new species Megalomys camerhogne from Pearls (Grenada), representing the largest-bodied member of the extinct endemic Caribbean genus Megalomys, and we refer smaller-bodied oryzomyine material from Pearls and Sabazan (Carriacou) to the widespread extant Neotropical species Zygodontomys brevicauda. Body size variation within Megalomys correlates with island bank area and might thus reflect historical rather than modern biogeography. Zygodontomys specimens from the Grenada Bank fall within the upper end of size variation in extant populations and may constitute an example of ‘island gigantism’, but it is possible that occurrence of this widespread species on the Grenada Bank might reflect prehistoric human-mediated translocation. We predict further endemic Caribbean rice rat taxa remain to be discovered, including a possible species of Megalomys on the neighbouring island of St. Vincent.

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Landau, Bernard, Gijs C. Kronenberg, and Carlos M. da Silva. "The genus Cittarium (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea) in the Upper Miocene of the Dominican Republic with the description of a new species." Journal of Paleontology 89, no. 4 (July 2015): 589–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2015.38.

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AbstractToday, the marine gastropod genus Cittarium is present only in the West Indies faunas, represented by a single species C. pica, also known from the Pleistocene of Bermuda. Herein Cittarium praepica n. sp. is described from the Upper Miocene Cercado Formation of the Dominican Republic. This is the oldest fossil record for the genus in the eastern Tropical America. The new species is compared to the Pleistocene to Recent Caribbean C. pica and to C. maestratii Lozouet, 2002 of the Upper Oligocene of France. The importance of this new record for the geological history and the biogeography of the genus are discussed.

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Seutin, Gilles, Nedra K. Klein, Robert E. Ricklefs, and Eldredge Bermingham. "Historical Biogeography of the Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola) in the Caribbean Region: A Mitchondrial DNA Assessment." Evolution 48, no. 4 (August 1994): 1041. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2410365.

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Echelle, Anthony A., Linda Fuselier, Ronald A. Van Den Bussche, Carlos M. L. Rodriguez, and Michael L. Smith. "Molecular systematics of Hispaniolan pupfishes (Cyprinodontidae: Cyprinodon): Implications for the biogeography of insular Caribbean fishes." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39, no. 3 (June 2006): 855–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2005.12.010.

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Nieto-Blázquez, María Esther, Alexandre Antonelli, and Julissa Roncal. "Historical Biogeography of endemic seed plant genera in the Caribbean: Did GAARlandia play a role?" Ecology and Evolution 7, no. 23 (October 24, 2017): 10158–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3521.

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Santiago-Valentin, Eugenio, and Richard G. Olmstead. "Historical biogeography of Caribbean plants: introduction to current knowledge and possibilities from a phylogenetic perspective." TAXON 53, no. 2 (May 2004): 299–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4135610.

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Seutin, Gilles, Nedra K. Klein, Robert E. Ricklefs, and Eldredge Bermingham. "HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE BANANAQUIT (COEREBA FLAVEOLA) IN THE CARIBBEAN REGION: A MITOCHONDRIAL DNA ASSESSMENT." Evolution 48, no. 4 (August 1994): 1041–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1994.tb05292.x.

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Loureiro, Livia O., Mark D. Engstrom, and Burton K. Lim. "Biogeography of Neotropical mastiff bats: A case of multiple dispersals between the Caribbean and mainland." Journal of Biogeography 48, no. 6 (March 12, 2021): 1353–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14081.

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DIEZ, YANDER L., and CARLOS LIRA. "Systematics and biogeography of Cuban porcelain crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae)." Zootaxa 4216, no. 5 (January 10, 2017): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4216.5.2.

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Marine crustaceans are a well-known invertebrates group in Cuban waters, but some taxa are not well catalogued and the literature about them is scattered. In this work, we present the checklist of porcelain crabs of Cuban Archipelago, including the literature registers and unpublished author’s data. A key to the identification of 8 genera and 23 species of the Cuban porcelain crabs is provided. Information about the local distribution of species is presented. In addition, we analyzed the porcelain crab faunal affinities between the ecoregions of the Cuban platform, Greater Antilles islands and the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic (TNA) province. For the first time, we record the presence of the monotypic genus Parapetrolisthes Haig in Cuba. On the Cuban platform, the highest similarities are between the Southcentral and Northwestern ecoregions (50%) and between Northcentral and Northeastern (40%). In the Greater Antilles, Cuba and Puerto Rico are the most similar (54%), but in general, the porcelain crab composition shows a high variation (e. g. 19% between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico). In the Tropical Northwestern Atlantic, five homogeneous groups of porcelain crab species are distinguished. Cuban fauna is most similar to that of Floridian, Western Caribbean and Southern Gulf of Mexico ecoregions. The decrease in species richness is evident from south to north in the TNA Province.

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FERNÁNDEZ-TRIANA, JOSÉ L. "The taxonomy and biogeography of Cuban Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)." Zootaxa 1007, no. 1 (June 14, 2005): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1007.1.1.

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A comprehensive study of Cuban Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) was carried out. Nine new species are described: Ophion picocuba sp. nov., Thyreodon alayoi sp. nov., Thyreodon gabrieli sp. nov Enicospilus cheoi sp. nov., E. iangauldi sp. nov., E. grilloi sp. nov., E. hansonorum sp. nov., E. teremariae sp. nov. and E. wahli sp. nov. Five species are recorded for the first time to the island: Enicospilus dispilus, E. gallegosi, E. neotropicus, E. sondrae and E. woldai. Thyreodon sp. (Alayo, 1973) is T. fulvescens Cresson. New biological information regarding host records is provided for E. flavus and O. flavidus. A preliminary analysis of distribution of ophionines within the Cuban archipelago and their relationships with the Caribbean, Florida (USA) and Central American faunas are also discussed.KEY WORDS: Ophioninae, taxonomy, Biogeography, CubaSe revisa la subfamilia Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) en Cuba. Se describen nueve especies: Ophion picocuba sp. nov., Thyreodon alayoi sp. nov., Thyreodon gabrieli sp. nov., Enicospilus cheoi sp. nov., E. iangauldi sp. nov., E. grilloi sp. nov., E. hansoni sp. nov., E. teremariae sp. nov. y E. wahli sp. nov. Cinco especies se registran por primera vez para el país: Enicospilus dispilus (Szépligeti), E. gallegosi Gauld, E. neotropicus Hooker, E. sondrae Gauld y E. woldai Gauld. Thyreodon sp. (Alayo, 1973) es T. fulvescens Cresson. Se aporta nueva información biológica en relación con registros de hospederos para E. flavus y O. flavidus. Se analiza preliminarmente la distribución de la subfamilia en el archipiélago cubano y sus relaciones con el Caribe insular, Florida (USA) y América Central.PALABRAS CLAVE: Ophioninae, taxonomía, Biogeografía, Cuba

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Perez, Victor J., Catalina Pimiento, Austin Hendy, Gerardo González-Barba, Gordon Hubbell, and Bruce J. MacFadden. "Late Miocene chondrichthyans from Lago Bayano, Panama: Functional diversity, environment and biogeography." Journal of Paleontology 91, no. 3 (April 11, 2017): 512–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2017.5.

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AbstractThis newly described chondrichthyan fauna from the late Miocene Chucunaque Formation of Lago Bayano reveals a prolific and highly diverse assemblage from Panama, and one of the richest shark faunas from the Neotropics. Strontium geochronology indicates an age of 10–9.5 Ma for the chonrichthyan-bearing strata. Field efforts resulted in 1429 identifiable specimens comprising at least 31 taxa, of which at least eight are new to the documented fossil record of Panama. With this information an analysis of functional diversity was conducted, indicating ecosystems dominated by generalist species feeding upon a wide range of organisms, from plankton to marine mammals. A probabilistic approach of paleobathymetric estimation suggests a neritic environment. Previous studies based on foraminifera have suggested that the Chucunaque Formation had a greater Pacific Ocean affinity, making this the first Miocene chondrichthyan fauna described from the Pacific shelf of Panama. However, our geographic comparisons show that this fauna has mixed Caribbean and Pacific biogeographic affinities, which likely supports the previously purported connection between chondrichthyan faunas during the late Miocene.

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