title: When endemic coral-reef fish species serve as models: endemic mimicry patterns in the Marquesas Islands.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Excellence «CORAIL», EPHE, PSL Research University, UPVD, CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Université de Perpignan, 52 Av. Paul Alduy, F-66860, Perpignan, France.|UMR 720 - ISYEB - MNHN, CNRS, UPMC, EPHE, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP39, F-75005, Paris, France.|Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Delrieu-Trottin
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Excellence «CORAIL», EPHE, PSL Research University, UPVD, CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Université de Perpignan, 52 Av. Paul Alduy, F-66860, Perpignan, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Planes
authors.affiliation: Division of Fishes, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD, 20746, U.S.A.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000067558:Biological Mimicry; D057894:Coral Reefs; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes; D011114:Polynesia
keywords: Chromis fatuhivae; Coris hewetti; Pseudanthias regalis; Stethojulis marquesensis; endemism