* Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific, Animals Life from Africa to Hawai ‘ i ( invertebrates ) by Gosliner, T., D. Behrens & G. Williams.

This species is found in the eastern Pacific, from the mid-California coast to Mexico, the Indo-Pacific from East Africa to American Samoa, north to Japan, and south to the Great Barrier Reef.

Reef lobsters, Enoplometopus, are a genus of small lobsters that live on reefs in the Indo-Pacific, Caribbean and warmer parts of the east Atlantic Ocean.

* Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific by Veron, J. E. N.

Often marked by lines and spots, they inhabit tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world, with the greatest species richness in the Indo-Pacific.

The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin is also covered by the Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region ( Pacific Cetaceans MoU ).

Area covered by the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region

The three scientists determined the existence of the species by analysing the morphology and mitochondrial DNA of nine individuals — eight caught by a Japanese research vessel in the late 1970s in the Indo-Pacific and a further specimen collected in 1998 from Tsunoshima island in the Sea of Japan.

( 2005 ), researchers looked at the feeding ecology of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins by analyzing the stomach contents of ones that got caught in the gillnet fisheries off Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins located in Shark Bay, Australia are thought to have a symbiotic relationship with sponges by doing what is called “ sponging ”.

The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin is also covered by Memorandum of Understanding for the Conservation of Cetaceans and Their Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region ( Pacific Cetaceans MoU ).

Murex is solely an Indo-Pacific genus, as demonstrated by Ponder & Vokes ( 1988 ).

Found in mangroves, in salt marshes, and on sandy or muddy beaches of West Africa, the Western Atlantic, the Eastern Pacific and the Indo-Pacific, fiddler crabs are easily recognized by their distinctively asymmetric claws.

Indo-Pacific is a hypothetical language macrofamily proposed in 1971 by Joseph Greenberg.

" In Ruhlen's view, Indo-Pacific is clearly much more ancient than Austronesian, which reflects a migration from southeast Asia that began only years ago ; he notes that New Guinea was inhabited by modern humans at least years ago, and possibly to years earlier than that.

The Indo-Pacific proposal was based on rough estimation of lexical similarity and typological similarity and has not reached a stage where it can be confirmed by the standard comparative method, including the reconstruction of a protolanguage.

The wahoo may be distinguished from the related Atlantic king mackerel and from the Indo-Pacific Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel by a fold of skin which covers the mandible when its mouth is closed.

Heteractis magnifica, also known by the common names magnificent sea anemone or Ritteri anemone, is a species of sea anemone that lives in the Indo-Pacific area, and can grow up to 1 metre ( 3 feet ) in diameter in the wild.

The small drawn beads made by that industry have been called Indo-Pacific beads, because they may have been the single most widely traded item in history — found from the islands of the Pacific to Great Zimbabwe in southern Africa.

The Australian giant cuttlefish is eaten by Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, which have been observed ( in South Australia's Spencer Gulf ) to have developed a technique for removing the ink and cuttlebone from a cuttlefish before eating it.

In 1971 Greenberg proposed the Indo-Pacific macrofamily, which groups together the Papuan languages ( a large number of language families of New Guinea and nearby islands ) with the native languages of the Andaman Islands and Tasmania but excludes the Australian Aboriginal languages.

A similar pattern emerged in a study in 2009 based on morphology, including color, dermal denticles and teeth: A smaller species, up to about in width, M. alfredi is found in the Indo-Pacific and tropical east Atlantic, and a larger, up to at least in width, M. birostris is found throughout tropical, subtropical and warm temperate oceans, but it has not yet been documented from most islands in the southwest Pacific.

* Blench, Roger, « Musical instruments and musical pratices as markers of austronesian expansion », 18th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Manila, 26 March 2006.

Many authorities suggest an Indo-Pacific origin either around Melanesia and Malesia or the Indian Ocean, while others see the origin in northwestern South America.

The missionary movements peaked during the Islamic Golden Age, with the expansion of foreign trade routes, primarily into the Indo-Pacific and as far South as the isle of Zanzibar and the South-Eastern shores of Africa.

It is also the only sirenian in its range, which spans the waters of at least 37 countries throughout the Indo-Pacific, though the majority of dugongs live in the northern waters of Australia between Shark Bay and Moreton Bay.

The Indo-Pacific region ( including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and the Pacific ) account for 91. 9 % of this total.

Nautiluses are only found in the Indo-Pacific, from 30 ° N to 30 ° S latitude and 90 ° to 175 ° E longitude.

This species and the smaller Indo-Pacific man o ' war are responsible for up to 10, 000 human stings in Australia each summer, particularly on the east coast, with some others occurring off the coast of South Australia and Western Australia.

Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment.

In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e. g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea ( Cypraea ) tigris Linnaeus, which belongs to the subgenus Cypraea of the genus Cypraea.

The outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef is the boundary between Queensland and the Coral Sea Islands Territory.

( See also Virgin Islands National Park, Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument, Buck Island Reef National Monument, Christiansted National Historic Site, and Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve.

coral reefs include Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument and the Buck Island Reef National Monument ; more than half of Saint John and nearly all of Hassel Island are owned by the U. S. National Park Service

* Project AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Course

The southernmost atolls of the world are Elizabeth Reef at 29 ° 58 ' S, and nearby Middleton Reef at 29 ° 29 ' S, in the Tasman Sea, both of which are part of the Coral Sea Islands Territory.

* Coral Reef

Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral.

* Coral, The Reef & Marine Aquarium Magazine.

* NOAA CoRIS – Coral Reef Biology

* University of Southern Mississippi – Coral Reef Resource Guide

* Middleton Reef ( part of Coral Sea Islands Territory )

* Elizabeth Reef ( part of Coral Sea Islands Territory )

* Lihou Reef ( Coral Sea and Island territory )

They have compiled a Coral Reef Resilience Action Plan.

The University of Hawaii has come up with a Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program to help relocate and restore coral reefs in Hawaii.

Experimental Assessment of Coral Reef Rehabilitation Following Blast Fishing.

* Coral Reef Protection: What Are Coral Reefs ?.

* International Coral Reef Initiative

* Moorea Coral Reef Long Term Ecological Research Site ( US NSF )