Biology:Central American Pacific Islands

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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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  1. ↑ Brummitt, R.K. (2001), World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2, International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG), http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/TDWG_geo2.pdf, retrieved 2018-01-17 
  2. ↑ "Eastern Pacific Ocean, southeast of Mexico". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/nt0705. Retrieved 2018-01-17. 
  3. ↑ Hogue, C.; Miller, S. (1981), "Entomofauna of Cocos Island, Costa Rica", Atoll Research Bulletin 250: 1–29 
  4. ↑ Schneider, P., "Malpelo Island the "Mount Everest" of shark and large pelagic diving", Advanced Diver Magazine Digital, http://www.advanceddivermagazine.com/articles/malpelo/malpelo.html, retrieved 2018-01-17 




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