Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean Biogeography

18 September 2020
20 October 2020

Guest Editors:

Michael L. Berumen, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Joseph D. DiBattista, Curtin University, Australia

Luiz A. Rocha, California Academy of Sciences, USA

The Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean represent iconic and strategic locations in our tropical oceans, and yet few studies address the origins, maintenance, and distribution of marine fauna of these locations. This virtual issue of the Journal of Biogeography (JBI) serves to illustrate the biogeographical advances in these habitats at the periphery of the vast Indo-Pacific region with an editorial introduction, 14 contributions from an international workshop, and a set of 24 papers previously published in JBI. The selection includes a number of influential research studies that present novel data, those that apply methods to synthesize general patterns, and some that utilize newer genetic methods to infer patterns of the evolutionary history of coral reef ecosystems within this region.

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Phylogeography of Indo‐Pacific reef fishes: sister wrasses Coris gaimard and C. cuvieri in the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean

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Red Sea fishes in the Mediterranean Sea: a preliminary investigation of a biological invasion using DNA barcoding
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Centrifugal speciation and centres of origin
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A realignment of marine biogeographic provinces with particular reference to fish distributions
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Marine shelf habitat: biogeography and evolution
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Large scale patterns and trophic structure of southern African rocky shores: the roles of geographic variation and wave exposure
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Phylogeography and reef fishes: bringing ecology back into the argument
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The historical biogeography of coral reef fishes: global patterns of origination and dispersal
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After continents divide: comparative phylogeography of reef fishes from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean
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When biogeographical provinces collide: hybridization of reef fishes at the crossroads of marine biogeographical provinces in the Arabian Sea
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Blinded by the bright: a lack of congruence between colour morphs, phylogeography and taxonomy for a cosmopolitan Indo‐Pacific butterflyfish, Chaetodon auriga
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A review of contemporary patterns of endemism for shallow water reef fauna in the Red Sea
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On the origin of endemic species in the Red Sea
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Yellow tails in the Red Sea: phylogeography of the Indo‐Pacific goatfish Mulloidichthys flavolineatus reveals isolation in peripheral provinces and cryptic evolutionary lineages

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Origins of species richness in the Indo‐Malay‐Philippine biodiversity hotspot: evidence for the centre of overlap hypothesis
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The Sandy Shore of the Red Sea-Launching Pad for Lessepsian (Suez Canal) Migrant Fish Colonizers of the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Daniel Golani
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The Southwestern Indian Ocean as a potential marine evolutionary hotspot: perspectives from comparative phylogeography of reef brittle‐stars
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The geography of speciation in coral reef fishes: the relative importance of biogeographical barriers in separating sister‐species
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Temporal evolution of coral reef fishes: global patterns and disparity in isolated locations
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Testing dispersal limits in the sea: range‐wide phylogeography of the pronghorn spiny lobster Panulirus penicillatus
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Zoogeography of the coral reef fishes of the Socotra Archipelago
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The determinants of species richness of a relatively young coral‐reef ichthyofauna
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Long‐standing environmental conditions, geographic isolation and host–symbiont specificity influence the relative ecological dominance and genetic diversification of coral endosymbionts in the genus Symbiodinium
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Shifting seas: the impacts of Pleistocene sea‐level fluctuations on the evolution of tropical marine taxa
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Biogeography versus resource management: how do they compare when prioritizing the management of coral reef fish in the south‐western Indian Ocean?
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An Indian Ocean centre of origin revisited: Palaeogene and Neogene influences defining a biogeographic realm
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Blind to morphology: genetics identifies several widespread ecologically common species and few endemics among Indo‐Pacific cauliflower corals (Pocillopora, Scleractinia)

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A bridge too far: dispersal barriers and cryptic speciation in an Arabian Peninsula grouper (Cephalopholis hemistiktos)

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Zoogeography of the southern African ascidian fauna
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Comparative phylogeography and species boundaries in Echinolittorina snails in the central Indo‐West Pacific

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Latitudinal variation in the symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium of the common reef zoantharian Palythoa tuberculosa on the Saudi Arabian coast of the Red Sea

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Large-Scale Variation in Assemblage Structure of Red Sea Butterflyfishes and Angelfishes
  • Callum M. Roberts
  • Alexander R. Dawson Shepherd
  • Rupert F. G. Ormond
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Zoogeography of the shallow‐water holothuroids of the western Indian Ocean
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Phytogeography of upwelling areas in the Arabian Sea
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Mitonuclear discordance in genetic structure across the Atlantic/Indian Ocean biogeographical transition zone
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Population genetic structure of the stony coral Acropora tenuis shows high but variable connectivity in East Africa

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Phylogeography, population structure and evolution of coral‐eating butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodontidae, genus Chaetodon, subgenus Corallochaetodon)