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The Northern Mesoamerican Pacific Mangroves are composed of two main mangrove areas located on the Pacific Coast and the Gulf of California Coast. Magdalena Bay is the largest area on the Pacific coast, along with San Ignacio Lagoon and Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, and on Cedros Island and Guadalupe Island off the coast. [1] [2]
The following is a list of ecoregions in Mexico as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). A different system of ecoregional analysis is used by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation , a trilateral body linking Mexican, Canadian and United States environmental regime.
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. [1] [2] Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangrove trees cannot withstand freezing temperatures. There are about 80 different species of mangroves, all of which ...
This is a list of mangrove ecoregions ordered according to whether they lie in the Afrotropical, Australasian, Indomalayan, or Neotropical realms of the world. Mangrove estuaries such as those found in the Sundarbans of southwestern Bangladesh are rich productive ecosystems which serve as spawning grounds and nurseries for shrimp, crabs, and many fish species, a richness which is lost if the ...
Fauna of Mangroves — a coastal aquatic/terrestrial biome in tropical climates around the world. Pages in category "Mangrove fauna" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The mangrove sites of this ecoregion run almost continually along a 260 km stretch of the Pacific Coastal Plain, along the length of the state of Chiapas and extending into southeastern Oaxaca. This plain, which includes the Soconusco region, is at the foot of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains and is mostly flat.
Madagascar mangroves; Magdalena–Santa Marta mangroves; Manabí mangroves; Maranhão mangroves; Marismas Nacionales–San Blas mangroves; Mayan Corridor mangroves; Mesoamerican Gulf–Caribbean mangroves; Mexican South Pacific Coast mangroves; Moist Pacific Coast mangroves; Mosquitia–Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves; Myanmar Coast mangroves
A remarkable diversity of fish spend their early life at the ocean's surface. This list includes many well-known, ecologically, and economically important species from a variety of habitats. Pelagic fish species include some anchovy, mahi-mahi, marlins, swordfish, amberjack and Atlantic mackerel.