List of species on Caroline Island

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Although it remains unclear whether or not the coconut crab is endangered, Caroline Island hosts a substantial population of the arthropod.

Species recorded on Caroline Island, one of the Line Islands in the south-central Pacific Ocean:

Trees

Groves of Pisonia grandis cover the central portions of many islets.
Although not native, coconut palms were planted on many of Caroline's islets in the 1920s and earlier, but are now largely gone.

Shrubs

Large stretches of Heliotropium foertherianum shrub cover many of Caroline's islets.

Herbs

Fauna

Notes

References

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