When endemic coral-reef fish species serve as models: endemic mimicry patterns in the Marquesas Islands

Erwan Delrieu-Trottin (1, 2, 3) , S. Planes (4, 1) , J. T. Williams (5)

1 LabEX CORAIL - Laboratoire d'Excellence CORAIL
2 ISYEB - Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité
3 Instituto de Ciencias ambientales y evolutivas
4 CRIOBE - Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement
5 Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History

This article documents several cases of widespread species, which usually mimic other widespread species throughout the Indo–Pacific, using endemic Marquesan species as a model and displaying endemic mimicry patterns. This discovery adds a new line of evidence to the uniqueness of the Marquesas Islands, which not only host a high number of endemic reef–fish species, but also endemic mimicry patterns.

Mots clés: Stethojulis marquesensis; Chromis fatuhivae; Coris hewetti; endemism; Pseudanthias regalis

Domaines: Biodiversité et Ecologie; Zoologie des vertébrés

Erwan Delrieu-Trottin, S. Planes, J. T. Williams. When endemic coral-reef fish species serve as models: endemic mimicry patterns in the Marquesas Islands. Journal of Fish Biology, 2016, ⟨10.1111/jfb.13050⟩. ⟨hal-01338324⟩