Fig. 1: Summary map of the Caribbean region.
From: Caribbean biodiversity shaped by subduction zone processes along the Lesser Antilles arch
PRVI Puerto Rico Virgin Island, NOLA Northern Lesser Antilles, SOLA Southern Lesser Antilles. Tectonic blocks color code: Caribbean (green); Central America (blue green); South America (purple); North America (orange), Coco-Nazca (light blue). The topographic basemap was extracted from the ETOPO 2022 (NOAA)71. A detailed list of tectonic blocks and fault names is provided in Supplementary Fig. 1. The species represented correspond to the Eocene to Oligocene (ca. 45–25 Ma ago) South American colonizers. They include land mammals (i.e., Paralouatta marianae monkey, megalocnid sloths; chinchilloid caviomorphs), amphibians (i.e., Caribbean toads and treefrogs), reptiles (i.e., Plethodontid salamanders, Aristelliger geckos, Sphaerodactylus geckolets, Amphisbaena worm lizards, Celestinae lizards, Tropidophiidae tropes, Cyclura iguanas, Typhlopidae blind snakes), arachnids (i.e., Anttillatus); freshwater fishes (i.e., Poeciliidae, Cichlidae) and plants (i.e., Podocarpus conifers)10,12,13,14,72.
