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Yucatán moist forests, the Glossary

The Yucatán moist forests are an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund.^[1]

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Ecoregions of Belize
Ecoregions of Central America
Ecoregions of Guatemala
Flora of the Yucatán Peninsula
Forests of Mexico

Acoelorraphe

Acoelorraphe is a genus of palms with a single species Acoelorraphe wrightii, known as the Paurotis palm, Everglades palm or Madeira palm in EnglishWorld Checklist of Palms: Germplasm Resources Information Network: International Plant Names Index (IPNI): and cubas, tique, and papta in Spanish.

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Allspice

Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. Yucatán moist forests and Allspice are flora of Guatemala.

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Aspidosperma megalocarpon

Aspidosperma megalocarpon is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. Yucatán moist forests and Aspidosperma megalocarpon are flora of Central America.

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Attalea cohune

Attalea cohune, commonly known as the cohune palm (also rain tree, American oil palm, corozo palm or manaca palm), is a species of palm tree native to Mexico and parts of Central America.

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Baird's tapir

The Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), also known as the Central American tapir, is a species of tapir native to Mexico, Central America, and northwestern South America.

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Belize

Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.

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Biome

A biome is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.

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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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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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Central American red brocket

The Central American red brocket (Mazama temama) is a species of brocket deer ranging from southern Mexico, through Central America, to northwestern Colombia.

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Coba

Coba (Cobá) is an ancient Maya city on the Yucatán Peninsula, located in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.

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Collared peccary

The collared peccary (Dicotyles tajacu) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed) mammal in the family Tayassuidae found in North, Central, and South America.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Cozumel

Cozumel (Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen.

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Cozumel emerald

The Cozumel emerald (Cynanthus forficatus) is a species of hummingbird in the "emeralds", tribe Trochilini of subfamily Trochilinae.

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Cozumel thrasher

The Cozumel thrasher (Toxostoma guttatum) is a bird from the mockingbird family (Mimidae), which is endemic to the island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.

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Cozumel vireo

The Cozumel vireo (Vireo bairdi) is a species of bird in the family Vireonidae.

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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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Epiphyte

An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it.

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Felidae

Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.

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Haematoxylum campechianum

Haematoxylum campechianum (blackwood, bloodwood tree, bluewood, campeachy tree, campeachy wood, campeche logwood, campeche wood, Jamaica wood, logwood or logwood tree) is a species of flowering tree in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is native to southern Mexico, and introduced to the Caribbean, northern Central America, and other localities around the world.

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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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Jaguarundi

The jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi; or) is a wild cat native to the Americas.

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Laguna de Términos

Laguna de Términos is the largest tidal lagoon by volume located entirely on the Gulf of Mexico, as well as one of the most biodiverse.

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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 moist forests and list of ecoregions in Mexico are ecoregions of Mexico.

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Manilkara zapota

Manilkara zapota, commonly known as sapodilla, sapote, chicozapote, chicoo, chicle, naseberry, nispero, or soapapple, among other names, is an evergreen tree native to southern Mexico and Central America. Yucatán moist forests and Manilkara zapota are flora of Guatemala.

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Margay

The margay (Leopardus wiedii) is a small wild cat native to Central and South America.

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Maya city

Maya cities were the centres of population of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.

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Mayan Corridor mangroves

The Mayan Corridor mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1421) covers the mangrove habitats along the Caribbean Sea coast of the state of Quintana Roo in southern Mexico and a narrow strip on the north of Belize. Yucatán moist forests and Mayan Corridor mangroves are ecoregions of Mexico.

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Mexican spider monkey

The Mexican spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus), also known by its mayan name "Ma'ax", is a subspecies of Geoffroy's spider monkey, and is one of the largest types of New World monkey.

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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. Yucatán moist forests and Neotropical realm are ecoregions of Central America.

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Ocellated turkey

The ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) is a species of turkey residing primarily in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, as well as in parts of Belize and Guatemala.

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Ocelot

The ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is a medium-sized spotted wild cat that reaches at the shoulders and weighs between on average.

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Orange oriole

The orange oriole (Icterus auratus) is a small bird species with orange feathers native to the Icteridae family in the Yucatán Peninsula.

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Pantanos de Centla

The Pantanos de Centla (Centla swamps) are wooded wetlands along the coast in state of Tabasco in Mexico. Yucatán moist forests and Pantanos de Centla are ecoregions of Mexico and Neotropical tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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Petén–Veracruz moist forests

The Petén–Veracruz moist forests is an ecoregion of the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest biome found in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Yucatán moist forests and Petén–Veracruz moist forests are ecoregions of Belize, ecoregions of Central America, ecoregions of Guatemala, ecoregions of Mexico, flora of Guatemala, flora of the Yucatán Peninsula, forests of Mexico and Neotropical tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests.

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Pithecellobium dulce

Pithecellobium dulce, commonly known as Manila tamarind, Madras thorn, monkeypod tree or camachile, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Pacific Coast and adjacent highlands of Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.

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Pouteria campechiana

Pouteria campechiana (commonly known as the cupcake fruit, eggfruit, zapote amarillo or canistel) is an evergreen tree native to, and cultivated in, southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

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Pseudophoenix sargentii

Pseudophoenix sargentii, commonly known as the Florida cherry palm or buccaneer palm, is a medium-sized palm native to the northern Caribbean, eastern Mexico, and extreme southeast Florida in the United States. Yucatán moist forests and Pseudophoenix sargentii are flora of the Yucatán Peninsula.

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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 moist forests and Ría Lagartos mangroves are ecoregions of Mexico.

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Rose-throated tanager

The rose-throated tanager (Piranga roseogularis) is a medium-sized songbird in the family Cardinalidae, the cardinals or cardinal grosbeaks.

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Sian Kaʼan Biosphere Reserve

Sian Kaʼan Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de la Biósfera de Sian Kaʼan) is a biosphere reserve in Tulum Municipality in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.

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Swietenia macrophylla

Swietenia macrophylla, commonly known as mahogany, Honduran mahogany, Honduras mahogany, or big-leaf mahogany is a species of plant in the Meliaceae family.

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Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Usumacinta mangroves

The Usumacinta mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID: NT1437) covers the mangrove forests ont the Gulf Coast of Mexico, around the margins of the Laguna de Términos ("Lagoon of Ends"). Yucatán moist forests and Usumacinta mangroves are ecoregions of Mexico.

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White-lipped peccary

The white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is a species of peccary found in Central and South America and the only member of the genus Tayassu.

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White-tailed deer

The white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), also known commonly as the whitetail and the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized species of deer native to North America, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru and Bolivia, where it predominately inhabits high mountain terrains of the Andes.

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References

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

, White-tailed deer, World Wide Fund for Nature, Yucatan amazon, Yucatan brown brocket, Yucatan flycatcher, Yucatan jay, Yucatan nightjar, Yucatan poorwill, Yucatan woodpecker, Yucatán black howler, Yucatán dry forests, Yucatán Peninsula, Yum Balam, Zuelania.

Yucatán moist forests, the Glossary

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See also

Ecoregions of Belize

Ecoregions of Central America

Ecoregions of Guatemala

Flora of the Yucatán Peninsula

Forests of Mexico

References