Indo-Pacific
Sign in to saveAlso known as Indo - West Pacific, Indo-Pacific Asia, Indo-Pacific Ocean
right|thumb|upright=1.35|Area covered by the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region thumb|upright=1.35|Indo-Pacific. The green ellipse covers the ASEAN.
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Subdivisions
- Central Indo-Pacific
- Eastern Indo-Pacific
- Western Indo-Pacific
- Ecology
- Economic region
- Geopolitical context
- Origins
- Contemporary use
- Criticism
- Definitional ambiguity
- Geopolitical inclusions
- Africa
- Middle East
- Indian Ocean
- Asia
- Pacific Ocean/Oceania
- Americas
- See also
- References
- Further reading
right|thumb|upright=1.35|Area covered by the Indo-Pacific biogeographic region thumb|upright=1.35|Indo-Pacific. The green ellipse covers the ASEAN.
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two. The term is especially useful in marine biology, ichthyology, and similar fields, since many marine habitats are continuously connected from Madagascar to Japan and Oceania, and a number of species occur over that range, but are not found in the Atlantic Ocean.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indo-Pacific” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.