the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
The Cocos (Keeling)
Islands are
a territory of Australia
and are part of the Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests
ecoregion (EoE).
There is a single endemic subspecies of bird, the Cocos Buff-banded
Rail Gallirallus
philippensis andrewsi (environment.gov.au
pdf file).
One marine fish, a puffer Tetraodon implutus (Darwin Online),
is apparently known only from the type specimen described in 1842.
Invertebrates unique to the islands include a tineid moth Opogona (or Conchyliospila) simoniella (Naturhistorhiska
riksmuseet), a picture-winged fly Ortalis
dispila (BHL), a xanthid crab Paraxanthias
(or Lachnopodus)
gibsonhilli
(p. 15 of Raffles
Museum 4 MB pdf file), an amphipod crustacean Floresorchestia poorei (Museum Victoria pdf file), and a land snail Succinea keelingensis
(p. 20 of Raffles
Museum pdf file).
The sole endemic plant is a subspecies of screwpine Pandanus tectorius cocosensis (Flora of Australia Online).