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Species

Species

The whole Peruvian register, including deep-sea species, plankton and parasites. Featured species and those recorded on the coast where ORKA dives come first.

Species accounts in English

Map: choose a region
Map of Peru with its four sea regionsEach band links to the species list of that region, with how many species it has on record: the tropical northern sea, the transition zone, the cold central sea and the cold southern sea.Tropicalnorthern sea768 speciesTropical–coldtransition zone606 speciesColdcentral sea958 speciesColdsouthern sea624 species
The four sea regions, divided at 4.5° S, 6.0° S and 12.16° S: together they make up Peru's three marine ecoregions (MEOW). Each band is drawn 150 km wide; it is not an official boundary.

The numbers count the species with scientific records or confirmed in each region, ignoring the other filters. Where does the list come from?

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4,038 species in the Peruvian register