The Central American Pacific Islands is a biogeographical area used in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. It has the Level 3 code "CPI". It consists of a number of islands off the western coast of Central America in the Pacific Ocean: Clipperton Island, Cocos Island and Malpelo Island.[1]
Clipperton Island is the most north-westerly, lying off Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Politically it belongs to France.[2] Cocos Island and Malpelo Island lie south of Panama, although Cocos Island belongs to Costa Rica[3] and Malpelo Island to Colombia.[4]
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References
- ^ Brummitt, R.K. (2001), World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2 (PDF), International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG), archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-01-25, retrieved 2018-01-17
- ^ "Eastern Pacific Ocean, southeast of Mexico", Terrestrial Ecoregions, World Wildlife Fund, retrieved 2018-01-17
- ^ Hogue, C.; Miller, S. (1981), "Entomofauna of Cocos Island, Costa Rica", Atoll Research Bulletin, 250: 1–29
- ^ Schneider, P., "Malpelo Island the "Mount Everest" of shark and large pelagic diving", Advanced Diver Magazine Digital, retrieved 2018-01-17
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