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INDO-PACIFIC Perrier 1878
INDO-PACIFIC Perrier 1878
Available Names:
Indo-Pacific Perrier 1878: 108.
Additional synonomies:
Indo-Pacific.—Ortmann 1896: 60.
Area Taxonomy:
MARINE AREAS
Diagnosis:
Littoral and pelagic water marine regions between the Mozambique channel in the west to the Chilean and Peruvian coast in the east, bounded by the Australian Circumpolar Current in the south and, by the Indian sub- continent, and, by the Indian subcontinent, Mainland Asia, Japan and by the North Pacific in the north.
Ortmann (1896) divided the Circumtropical Zone into the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions. Both these regions include littoral and pelagic life zones (“Lebensbezirk”). Ortmann (1896) never cites Perrier (1878) although the latter used the term first within the context of marine regions. The definition used by Ortmann places Australia within the Indo-Pacific (rather than as a separate region).
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