Country List - Erotelis smaragdus

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Erotelis smaragdus was reported from 30 countries/islands

Table 1: the species is currently present in 30 of them (endemic, native, introduced);
Table 2: possible in 0 of them (stray, questionable);
Table 3: absent from 0 of them (extirpated, not established, misidentification, error).
Table 4: all reports listed together.

Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bahamas, southeastern Florida and northern Gulf of Mexico in USA to Brazil.

How to read map

How to read the map

The literature species report in a country is represented by an icon (a circle) in the middle of the country polygon.
Important: a report in the literature does not necessarily mean that the species is currently present in the country! There are errors in literature, misidentifications, and some species have been locally or globally extirpated or eradicated.

The patterns and colours of the icon give 4 additional indications (see the legend under the map for the signification of the different colours and patterns):

Presence status: the colour of the ring (green: Present; orange: Possible; red: Absent)
Introduction status: a white 'i' in the middle of the circle indicates that the species has been introduced, if the presence ring is green it means that the species established itself or that we don't know the current presence status, if the presence ring is red it means that the species did not established itself.
Threat status: the pattern of the ring (not dashed: not threatened or no information; dashed: any status indicating that the species has a national threatened).
Important: This is the national threatened status, not the global IUCN one.
Salinity status = milieu: the colours in the middle circle (blue: Marine; green: Brackish; light blue: freshwater; dark green: Land).

How to interpret the map

The icon in a country polygon indicates that the species has been reported at least once in the country, BUT NOT NECESSARILY that it is present IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY.
It is particularly the case for large country such as Brazil, USA, Canada, Russia, China, India, Indonesia, Australia, etc.
For example, a number of freshwater species present in western European countries are also present in the western part of Russia, but not beyond the Ural mountains. Still the icon for Russia is placed in its Asian part.
The icon is placed approximately in the middle of the country, even for the species that are marine only.
For marine species, it does not mean either that the species is present in all oceanic coasts of the countries (e.g., Altlantic and Pacific for USA and Canada).
So the map needs to be interpreted carefully, but we think it helps to give a quick view of the distribution by country, in a better way than the textual list of countries when it is over a dozen countries.

Table 1: Present in 30 countries/islands (endemic, native, introduced)

Continent	Country		Occurrence	Main Ref.
North America	Anguilla	AIA	native	26938
North America	Antigua Barbuda	ATG	native	26938
North America	Aruba	ABW	native	26938
North America	Bahamas	BHS	native	5521
North America	Barbados	BRB	native	26938
North America	Belize	BLZ	native	30499
South America	Brazil	BRA	native	40101
North America	Cayman Is.	CYM	native	26938
South America	Colombia	COL	native	11344
North America	Cuba	CUB	native	54206
North America	Curaçao I.	CUW	native	26938
North America	Dominica	DMA	native	26938
North America	Dominican Rp	DOM	native	26938
North America	Grenada	GRD	native	26938
North America	Guadeloupe	GLP	native	26938
North America	Haiti	HTI	native	26938
North America	Jamaica	JAM	native	27228
North America	Martinique	MTQ	native	26938
North America	Mexico	MEX	native	74908
North America	Montserrat	MSR	native	26938
North America	Nicaragua	NIC	native	30499
North America	Puerto Rico	PRI	native	50307
North America	St Kitts Nevis	KNA	native	26938
North America	St Lucia	LCA	native	26938
North America	St Vincent Gren.	VCT	native	26938
North America	Trinidad Tobago	TTO	native	33407
North America	USA	USA	native	7251
South America	Venezuela	VEN	native	13628
North America	Virgin Is. (UK)	VGB	native	26938
North America	Virgin Is. (US)	VIR	native	26180

Table 4: Reported from 30 countries/islands.

Continent	Country		Occurrence	Main Ref.
North America	Anguilla	AIA	native	26938
North America	Antigua Barbuda	ATG	native	26938
North America	Aruba	ABW	native	26938
North America	Bahamas	BHS	native	5521
North America	Barbados	BRB	native	26938
North America	Belize	BLZ	native	30499
South America	Brazil	BRA	native	40101
North America	Cayman Is.	CYM	native	26938
South America	Colombia	COL	native	11344
North America	Cuba	CUB	native	54206
North America	Curaçao I.	CUW	native	26938
North America	Dominica	DMA	native	26938
North America	Dominican Rp	DOM	native	26938
North America	Grenada	GRD	native	26938
North America	Guadeloupe	GLP	native	26938
North America	Haiti	HTI	native	26938
North America	Jamaica	JAM	native	27228
North America	Martinique	MTQ	native	26938
North America	Mexico	MEX	native	74908
North America	Montserrat	MSR	native	26938
North America	Nicaragua	NIC	native	30499
North America	Puerto Rico	PRI	native	50307
North America	St Kitts Nevis	KNA	native	26938
North America	St Lucia	LCA	native	26938
North America	St Vincent Gren.	VCT	native	26938
North America	Trinidad Tobago	TTO	native	33407
North America	USA	USA	native	7251
South America	Venezuela	VEN	native	13628
North America	Virgin Is. (UK)	VGB	native	26938
North America	Virgin Is. (US)	VIR	native	26180

The map in this page was supported by BioFresh that has received funding from the
European Union's Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 226874

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