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4 unusual facts about Aldabra


Aldabra

Tropicbird orchid Angraecum Seychellarum is the national flower of Seychelles found in the dry craggy limestone champignon of Aldebra.

Guy Lionnet

They also note that he successfully campaigned for the proclamation of the Aldabra Atoll as a World Heritage Site.

Malcolm Penny

Malcolm Penny is a British zoologist who is known for his ornithological field work on Aldabra and the Seychelles.

Xenoconger fryeri

Xenoconger fryeri is an eel of the family Chlopsidae which inhabits tropical waters around Assumption Island and Aldabra in the Indian Ocean and New Caledonia, Palau, Fiji and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.


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Bursa rhodostoma

It is found in European waters, in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Cape Verdes, in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles, in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, and the Mascarene Basin.

Dawn Whyatt Frith

Dawn obtained her PhD, in littoral zone marine biology on A study of the biology of animals living on the littoral sponges with special reference to Halicondria panicea (Pallas), at London University and lectured in zoology before meeting Clifford Brodie Frith on Aldabra Atoll, Indian Ocean where she was a visiting scientist studying insects and he a staff scientist studying birds.

Monoplex nicobaricus

Regions where Monoplex nicobaricus is found include Aldabra, Brazil, Canaries, Cape Verde, Chagos, European waters, Florida, Gulf of Mexico, Mascarene Basin and West Indies.

Oxymeris felina

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaiian Islands

Polydesma umbricola

It is found in Southern Europe, Africa, minor Asia to Southern Asia, including many Indian Ocean islands, like Coëtivy Island, Aldabra, Assumption Island, Madagascar and on Hawaii.

White-throated Rail

A flightless subspecies, Dryolimnas cuvieri aldabranus (Aldabra Rail), inhabits Aldabra, while another, D. c. abbotti (Assumption Rail), from Assumption went extinct in the early 20th century due to introduced predators.


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