List of species on Caroline Island

Species recorded on Caroline Island, one of the Line Islands in the south-central Pacific Ocean:

Contents 1 Flora 1.1 Trees 1.2 Shrubs 1.3 Herbs 2 Fauna 2.1 Nesting Seabirds 2.2 Other birds 2.3 Lizards 2.4 Mammals 2.5 Turtles 2.6 Crabs 2.7 Polychaetes 3 References

Flora

Trees

• Calophyllum
• Cocos nucifera
• Cordia subcordata
• Hibiscus tiliaceus
• Morinda citrifolia

• Pandanus tectorus
• Pisonia grandis
• Thespesia populnea

Shrubs

• Heliotropium foertherianum
• Scaevola taccada
• Suriana maritima
• Ximenia americana

Herbs

• Achyranthes canscens
• Boerhavia repens
• Heliotropium anomalum
• Ipomoea macrantha
• Ipomoea violacea
• Laportea ruderalis
• Lepidium bidentatum
• Lepturus repens
• Lygodium microphyllum
• Phyllanthus amarus
• Phymatosorus scolopendria
• Portulaca lutea
• Psilotum nudum
• Sida fallax
• Tacca leontopetaloides
• Tribulus cistoides

Fauna

Nesting Seabirds

• Black Noddy (Anous minutus)
• Blue-grey Noddy (Procelsterna cerulea) (Kepler)
• Brown Booby (Sula leucogaster)
• Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)
• Great Frigatebird (Fregata minor)
• Lesser Frigatebird (Fregata ariel)
• Masked Booby (Sula dactylatra)
• Red-footed Booby (Sula sula)
• Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon rubricauda) (Kepler)

• Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscata)
• White Tern (Gygis alba)

Other birds

• Bristle-thighed Curlew (Numenius tahitiensis)

• Lesser Golden-Plover (Pluvialis dominica) (Kepler)
• Long-tailed Cuckoo (Eudynamis taitensis)
• Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis fulva)
• Reef Heron (Egretta sacra) (Kepler)
• Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres) (Kepler)
• Sanderling (Crocethia alba) (Kepler)
• Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus incanum)

Lizards

• Azure-tailed skink (Emoia cyanura) (Kepler)
• Emoia impar (Kepler)
• Moth skink (Lipinia noctua) (Kepler)
• Mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris) (Kepler)
• Polynesian gecko (Gehyra oceanica) (Kepler)

• Snake-eyed skink (Cryptoblepharus poecilopleurus) (Kepler)

Mammals

• Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops gilli) (Kepler)
• Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) (Kepler)

Turtles

• Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Crabs

• Coconut crab (Birgus largo)
• Red spotted crab (Carpilius maculatus) (Kepler)
• Scarlet crab (Cornobita perlatus) (Kepler)

Polychaetes

• Calcareous tubeworm (Serpula tetratropia)^[1]

References

• Kepler, A.K.; C.B. Kepler (February 1994). "The natural history of the Caroline Atoll, Southern Line Islands". Atoll Research Bulletin 397-398. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/arb/397-398/.