The zoogeographic regions of the Aegean Sea: a multi-taxon approach
Kostas Triantis, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis, Anastasios Legakis, Ioannis Anastasiou, Pavlos Andriopoulos, Christos Georgiadis, Petros Lymberakis, Anthi Oikonomou, Nikos Probonas, Konstantinos Proios, Vassiliki Spaneli, Stylianos Michail Simaiakis, Apostolos Trichas, Panayiotis Trigas, Katerina Vardinoyannis, Spyros Sfenthourakis
January, 2018Abstract
Already in the 19th century, naturalists such as von Humboldt and Bonpland (1807), Sclater (1858) and Wallace (1876) had noticed that the globe’s biota can be divided into a number of more or less distinct geographical units. Wallace (1876) used existing knowledge of his time on the distribution and taxonomic relationships of vertebrate families (Sclater, 1858), and divided the world into six ter-