Spratly Islands And Paracel islands
The
Spratly Islands
and the Paracel Islands are part of the South China Sea Islands terrestrial ecoregion (EoE)
and are claimed by several different countries.
A shrimp goby described from the Spratlys is Amblyeleotris taipinensis
(p. 7 of Fish
Database of Taiwan WM pdf) (PLAZI). The Macclesfield Bank, another disputed region north of the Spratlys, is the only known home of the Whitespotted Perchlet Chelidoperca leucostigmata (frontiers), a velvetfish Prosoproctus pataecus (J-Stage pdf), a spikefish Paratriacanthodes abei (BHL), the dragonets Callionymus luridus (BHL) and Callionymus macclesfieldensis (fig. 55 at ResearchGate), and a cusk-eel Neobythites longispinis (p. 39 of zmuc.dk WM pdf).
Among the crab species known exclusively from these islands are Globopilumnus (or Eupilumnus) fragaria
(Raffles
Museum pdf) and
the following: Pilumnus
comatus, Pilumnus
rubroseta, and Pilumnus
capillatus (all at Raffles
Museum
pdf). Other endemic invertebrates include the mud shrimps
Acutigebia serrifera
and Acutigebia laticauda
(both at Raffles
Museum pdf), a copepod crustacean Tortanus
tumidus (Marine
Planktonic Copepods), an amphipod crustacean Byblis nanshaensis (ioz.ac.cn WM pdf), a sphinx moth Cephonodes sanshaensis (ScienceDirect), the bryozoans Cradoscrupocellaria nanshaensis
(WoRMS)
and Conescharellina
nanshaensis (WoRMS),
and several marine
molluscs: Fulgurofusus
nanshaensis (WMSDB),
Periploma nanshaense
(WMSDB),
Siphonalia nanshaensis
(Springer),
Sinum nanhaiense
(ResearchGate),
Conus nanshaensis
(WoRMS),
Nassarius nanshaensis (AOS WM), Acanthochitona nana (zin.ru pdf), Acmaea nanshaensis (fig. 2 at ResearchGate), and Kanamarua wangae
(ResearchGate).