Spratly Islands
The
Spratly Islands
are part of the South China Sea Islands terrestrial ecoregion (EoE)
and are claimed by several different countries.
A shrimp goby recently described from the Spratlys is Amblyeleotris taipinensis
(p. 7 of Fish
Database of Taiwan pdf file).
Among the crab species known exclusively from these islands are Globopilumnus fragaria
(Raffles
Museum pdf file), Paragoneplax
chenae (SpringerLink
pdf file, and the following: Pilumnus
guinotae, Pilumnus
comatus, Pilumnus
rubroseta, Pilumnus
capillatus, Pilumnus semilunaris
and Viaderiana sentus (all at Raffles
Museum
pdf file). Other endemic invertebrates include a marine
mollusc Fulgurofusus
nanshaensis (ANSP
OBIS), a copepod crustacean Tortanus tumidus (Marine
Planktonic Copepods),
and a bryozoan Scrupocellaria
nanshaensis (BryoZone).