Tuamotus

The Tuamotus are the smallest area in the world with an endemic sandpiper, the Tuamotu sandpiper (Prosobonia cancellata), which is now restricted to uninhabited, rat-free islands.

Tuamotu tropical moist forests 2007

Van Balgooy et al lump the Cooks, Niue, Societies, Tuamotus, Tubaui, and Marquesas based on floristic affinities.

Tubuai tropical moist forests 2008

The Tuamotus contain some of the most intact and damaged atolls in the Pacific.

Tuamotu tropical moist forests 2007

The herpetofauna of the Cook Islands, as well as that of the Societies, Tuamotus, and Marquesas consists mainly of species found throughout the tropical Pacific, and generally includes species transported by humans.

Cook Islands tropical moist forests 2007

Recent changes in the avifauna of Makatea Island (Tuamotus, central Pacific).

Tuamotu tropical moist forests 2007

Ducie and Oeno Atolls in the Pitcairn Islands, and all of the Tuamotus, with the exception of Makatea Island, are coral atolls less than 6 meters (m) in elevation, some of which surround enormous lagoons.

Tuamotu tropical moist forests 2007

Van Balgooy also lumps the Cooks, Niue, Societies, Tuamotus, Tubaui, and Marquesas based on floristic affinities.

Cook Islands tropical moist forests 2007

Allison treats the Cooks, Societies, Tuamotus, and Marquesas as a unit herpetologically as they share a similar reptile assemblage.

Society Islands tropical moist forests 2007

Allison treats the Cooks, Societies, Tuamotus, and Marquesas as a unit herpetologically as they share a similar reptile assemblage.

Cook Islands tropical moist forests 2007

Van Balgooy similarly lumps the Cooks, Niue, Societies, Tuamotus, Tubaui, and Marquesas based on floristic affinities.

Society Islands tropical moist forests 2007