Kiribati
Birds found nowhere
else than Kiribati include the Bokikokiko or Kiritimati Reed Warbler (ARKive)(IBC) and the extinct Kiritimati Sandpiper (Wikipedia).
Marine fish known only from Kiribati include the Golden Anthias Pseudanthias aurulentus (eol),
the Y-barred Sandperch Parapercis
lata (eol), the Candy Scale Pygmy Goby Trimma squamicana (FishBase), a wrasse Coris centralis (eol),
a
damselfish Chrysiptera
albata (p. 8 of SPREP 5 MB pdf file),
a goby Amblyeleotris
harrisorum (eol),
a gurnard Lepidotrigla jimjoebob
(FishBase), and a cardinalfish Neamia xenica (BioOne).
Insects unique to Kiribati include a planthopper Ugyops cercyo (p. 7 of Bishop
Museum pdf file), the weevils Rhyncogonus fosbergi and
Rhyncogonus vagus
(p. 31 of Bishop
Museum pdf file), a dance fly Drapetis kraussi
(p. 5 of Bishop
Museum 6 MB pdf file), and a blowfly Calliphora bryani (Bishop
Museum pdf file). Endemic marine molluscs include a murex
snail Muricopsis
leonardi (CiNii).
Vascular plants restricted to Kiribati are the Starbuck Island Daisy Bidens kiribatiensis
(PBIF)
and a screw pine Pandanus
fanningensis (ScholarSpace
8 MB pdf file). A second endemic screw pine Pandanus hermsianus
(UCJEPS)
may not be distinct from the widespread Pandanus tectorius (Wikipedia).
Kiribati is part of the Central Polynesian Moist Tropical Forests
ecoregion (EoE).
