Delrieu-Trottin E, Planes S, Williams J T
Laboratoire d'Excellence «CORAIL», EPHE, PSL Research University, UPVD, CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Université de Perpignan, 52 Av. Paul Alduy, F-66860, Perpignan, France.
UMR 720 - ISYEB - MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, EPHE, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP39, F-75005, Paris, France.
J Fish Biol. 2016 Sep;89(3):1834-8. doi: 10.1111/jfb.13050. Epub 2016 Jun 22.
This article documents several cases of widespread species, which usually mimic other widespread species throughout the Indo-Pacific, using endemic Marquesan species as a model and displaying endemic mimicry patterns. This discovery adds a new line of evidence to the uniqueness of the Marquesas Islands, which not only host a high number of endemic reef-fish species, but also endemic mimicry patterns.
本文记录了几个广布种的案例,这些广布种通常以马克萨斯群岛特有物种为模型,模仿整个印度-太平洋地区的其他广布种,并呈现出特有的拟态模式。这一发现为马克萨斯群岛的独特性增添了新的证据链,该群岛不仅拥有大量的特有珊瑚礁鱼类物种,还拥有特有的拟态模式。