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Yucatán dry forests, the Glossary

The Yucatán dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in southern Mexico.^[1]

43 relations: Administrative divisions of Mexico, Agave fourcroydes, Alvaradoa amorphoides, Brosimum alicastrum, Bursera simaruba, Cactus, Campeche, Campeche (city), Cedrela odorata, Ceiba pentandra, Common opossum, Ecoregion, Endemism, Geoffroy's spider monkey, Gulf of Mexico, Jaguar, Lesser yellow-headed vulture, List of ecoregions in Mexico, Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve, Lysiloma latisiliquum, Maclura tinctoria, Mangrove, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexican beaded lizard, Mexico, Neotropical realm, Petenes mangroves, Piscidia piscipula, Pterocereus, Puuc, Quintana Roo, Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Ría Lagartos mangroves, Sideroxylon foetidissimum, Stenocereus griseus, Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests, Uxmal, Vitex gaumeri, White-fronted amazon, White-nosed coati, Yucatán, Yucatán moist forests, Yucatán Peninsula.
Natural history of Campeche
Natural history of Yucatán
Natural history of the Yucatán Peninsula
Neotropical dry broadleaf forests

Administrative divisions of Mexico

The United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic composed of 32 federal entities: 31 states and Mexico City, an autonomous entity.

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Agave fourcroydes

Agave fourcroydes or henequen is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to southern Mexico and Guatemala.

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Alvaradoa amorphoides

Alvaradoa amorphoides, the Mexican alvaradoa, is a species of plant in the Picramniaceae family.

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Brosimum alicastrum

Brosimum alicastrum, commonly known as breadnut, Maya nut or ramon, and many others, is a tree species in the family Moraceae of flowering plants, whose other genera include figs and mulberries.

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Bursera simaruba, commonly known as gumbo-limbo, copperwood, almácigo, chaca, West Indian birch, naked Indian, and turpentine tree, is a tree species in the family Burseraceae, native to the Neotropics, from South Florida to Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

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Cactus

A cactus (cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species of the order Caryophyllales.

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Campeche

Campeche (Kaampech), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche (Free and Sovereign State of Campeche), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Campeche (city)

San Francisco de Campeche (Ahk'ìin Pech), 19th c., also known simply as Campeche, is a city in Campeche Municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche, on the shore of the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Cedrela odorata

Cedrela odorata, commonly known as Spanish cedar, Cuban cedar, or cedro in Spanish, is a commercially important species of tree in the chinaberry family, Meliaceae native to the Neotropics.

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Ceiba pentandra

Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var guineensis) West Africa.

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Common opossum

The common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis), also called the southern or black-eared opossum or gambá, and sometimes called a possum, is a marsupial species living from the northeast of Mexico to Bolivia (reaching the coast of the South Pacific Ocean to the central coast of Peru), including Trinidad and Tobago and the Windwards in the Caribbean, where it is called manicou.

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Ecoregion

An ecoregion (ecological region) is an ecologically and geographically defined area that is smaller than a bioregion, which in turn is smaller than a biogeographic realm.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Geoffroy's spider monkey

Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), also known as the black-handed spider monkey or the Central American spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.

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Jaguar

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large cat species and the only living member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas.

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Lesser yellow-headed vulture

The lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus) also known as the savannah vulture, is a species of bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae.

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List of ecoregions in Mexico

The following is a list of ecoregions in Mexico as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Yucatán dry forests and list of ecoregions in Mexico are ecoregions of Mexico.

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Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve

Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biosfera Los Petenes) is a biosphere reserve in Mexico.

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Lysiloma latisiliquum

Lysiloma latisiliquum, commonly known as false tamarind or wild tamarind, is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae, that is native to southern Florida in the United States, the Bahamas, Cuba, southern Mexico, and Belize.

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Maclura tinctoria

Maclura tinctoria, known as old fustic and dyer's mulberry, is a medium to large tree of the Neotropics, from Mexico to Argentina.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mérida, Yucatán

Mérida is the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southeastern Mexico.

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Mexican beaded lizard

The Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum) is a species of lizard in the family Helodermatidae, one of the two species of venomous beaded lizards found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Neotropical realm

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.

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Petenes mangroves

The Petenes mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1428) covers mangrove habitat along the Gulf of Mexico coast of southern Mexico, where Campeche state and Yucatan state meet, centering on the Celestun Lagoon inland from the barrier-island town of Celestún. Yucatán dry forests and Petenes mangroves are ecoregions of Mexico and Natural history of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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Piscidia piscipula

Piscidia piscipula, commonly named Florida fishpoison tree, Jamaican dogwood, or fishfuddle, is a medium-sized, deciduous, tropical tree in the Fabaceae family.

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Pterocereus

Pterocereus is a monotypic genus of cactus containing the sole species Pterocereus gaumeri.

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Puuc

Puuc is the name of either a region in the Mexican state of Yucatán or a Maya architectural style prevalent in that region.

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Quintana Roo

Quintana Roo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo (Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve

Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biósfera Ría Lagartos) (established 2004) is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the state of Yucatán, Mexico.

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Ría Lagartos mangroves

The Ría Lagartos mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1430) covers mangrove habitats of along the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, including the Ria Lagartos Lagoon ('Ria' meaning lagoon). Yucatán dry forests and Ría Lagartos mangroves are ecoregions of Mexico and Natural history of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucatán_dry_forests

Yucatán dry forests, the Glossary

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See also

Natural history of Campeche

Natural history of Yucatán

Natural history of the Yucatán Peninsula

Neotropical dry broadleaf forests

References