Scorpion Reef (Spanish: Arrecife Alacranes) is an atoll containing a small group of islets in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 km (78 mi; 67 NM) off the northern coast of the state of Yucatán, Mexico.[2] Designated a national park, the reef is part of the Campeche Bank archipelago and is the largest reef in the southern Gulf of Mexico.[3][4] It contains five main vegetated islands: Isla Pérez, Isla Desertora, Isla Pájaros, Isla Chica, and Isla Desterrada.[3][4] Isla Pérez is the only inhabited island and includes a lighthouse.[3] The reef, including its islets and surrounding waters, has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a population of magnificent frigatebirds.[5]
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^ abc"Arrecife Alacrán". GulfBase. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
^ ab"Instituto Nacional de Ecología" (in Spanish). Parque Marino Nacional Arrecife Alacranes. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
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endemic to the United States, with the species also being recorded on ScorpionReef a remote island chain in Mexico. The species also occurred in Florida...
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They are found in marine and brackish habitats. They typically inhabit reefs, but can also be found in estuaries, bays, and lagoons. Richard van der...
Lansdowne Park sold and renamed Caribbean Trader in 1958 and wrecked on ScorpionReef, Mexico in 1963. Dufferin Park sold in 1946 and renamed Dufferin Bell...
drama series Nash Bridges. She has starred in numerous films including The Scorpion King (2002) as Cassandra, Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) as Sona, X2 (2003)...
found in the Mabul reef. Frogfish are prevalent; giant, painted, and clown frogfish are regularly seen along with most of the scorpion fish family. List...
the wreck of the British Royal Mail Steamship Tweed, which sank on ScorpionReef in 1847, and the English merchantman Holiday that sank there in 1823...
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as Scorpion (A728). She was sold to Malaysian owners but sank while under tow from the former French ship Locuste (A765) when that ship struck a reef off...
as the oldest known scorpion (437 million years old), but was later re-described as an enigmatic, marine arthropod. Barrier reef systems covered a substantially...
started about 375 Ma, severely affected marine life, killing off most of the reef systems, most of the jawless fish, half of all placoderms, and nearly all...
Wilson R. Lourenço (2018). "A new remarkable scorpion genus and species from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)". Arachnida – Rivista...
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