分布在世界各地的热带和温带水域,在整个大加勒比海地区发现了叶照菌(即,加勒比海的严格意义,墨西哥湾,佛罗里达,巴哈马,和百慕大)。我们现在讨论的多样性,生态学,生物地理学,以及根据先前的研究和整个东部收集的大量样本,南方,在较小程度上是西加勒比海。现在记录了大加勒比海地区共有18种Lobophora物种,其中五个是新描述的(L.agardhiisp.11月。,L.dickieisp.11月。,L.lamourouxiisp.11月。,L.richardiisp.11月。,和L.setchelliisp.11月。).在大加勒比海地区,加勒比海东部和中部省是最多样化的生态区和省(16spp。),分别。观察到的分布模式表明,来自大加勒比海地区的Lobophora物种具有气候亲和力(即,温带与热带亲和力)。总的来说,11种植物仅出现在大加勒比海地区;西大西洋有6种;两个在印度太平洋;一个在东太平洋。生物地理学分析支持巴拿马地峡没有物种形成,大加勒比是印度-太平洋物种的接受国,也是多样化地区以及东北大西洋的捐助国地区。大加勒比海地区不是Lobophora进化的死胡同,而是产生和输出多样性。目前的结果表明,基于DNA识别的采样如何重塑生物地理模式,我们知道他们。
Distributed in tropical and warm-temperate waters worldwide, Lobophora species are found across the Greater Caribbean (i.e., Caribbean sensu stricto, Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermuda). We presently discuss the diversity, ecology, biogeography, and evolution of the Greater Caribbean Lobophora species based on previous studies and an extensive number of samples collected across the eastern, southern, and to a lesser extent western Caribbean. A total of 18 Lobophora species are now documented from the Greater Caribbean, of which five are newly described (L. agardhii sp. nov., L. dickiei sp. nov., L. lamourouxii sp. nov., L. richardii sp. nov., and L. setchellii sp. nov.). Within the Greater Caribbean, the eastern Caribbean and the Central Province are the most diverse ecoregion and province (16 spp.), respectively. Observed distribution patterns indicate that Lobophora species from the Greater Caribbean have climate affinities (i.e., warm-temperate vs. tropical affinities). In total, 11 Lobophora species exclusively occur in the Greater Caribbean; six are present in the western Atlantic; two in the Indo-Pacific; and one in the eastern Pacific. Biogeographic analyses support that no speciation occurred across the Isthmus of Panama, and that the Greater Caribbean acted as a recipient region for species from the Indo-Pacific and as a region of diversification as well as a donor region to the North-eastern Atlantic. The Greater Caribbean is not an evolutionary dead end for Lobophora, but instead generates and exports diversity. Present results illustrate how sampling based on DNA identification is reshaping biogeographic patterns, as we know them.