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Fiji - Animals in the Habitats and the Fossil sites, and Biodiversity
The following fossils from the geologic age to the prehistorical age are excavated in Fiji. The explanation in brackets is the ages they lived in extinct species. Note that Mya is million years ago. For example, "48.6～40.4 Mya" shows a range between 48.6 and 40.4 million years ago. The time range is shown in the Geological Time Table. The followings are a part of the Evolutionary Tree.
Fiji
prehistoric age | |
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Fiji
extinct species
Cenozoic |
 | Crocodile |
Volia (0.126～0.01 Mya) |
Fiji is an archipelago country in the South Pacific Ocean and the tropical zone. It is located to east of Vanuatu, to west of Tonga and to south of Tuvalu. The following shows the distribution of animals in Fiji.
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Fiji
regionally extinct
in historic age |
 | Rail |
Bar-winged Rail (？～AD1973) |  | Owl |
African Grass-owl |  | Bird |
Wandering Whistling Duck |
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Fiji
extant species |
 | Megabat |
Long-tailed fruit bat,
Samoa Flying-fox,
Insular Flying-fox,
Fijian Monkey-faced Bat |  | Iguana |
Fiji banded iguana,
Fiji crested iguana,
Fiji Iguana |  | Parrot |
Collared Lory ,
Blue-crowned Lorikeet ,
Red-throated Lorikeet ,
Crimson Shining Parrot ,
Masked Shining Parrot ,
Red Shining Parrot | | endemic bird |
Fiji Goshawk,
Peale's Imperial-pigeon,
Orange Dove,
Golden Dove,
Whistling Dove,
Kadavu Honeyeater,
Giant Honeyeater,
Orange-breasted Myzomela,
Slaty Monarch,
Ogea Monarch,
Blue-crested Flycatcher,
Silktail,
Kadavu Fantail,
Fiji Bush-warbler,
Layard's White-eye … total 16 endemic species | | bird (CR) |
Fiji Petrel | | bird (EN) |
Long-legged Warbler |
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Fiji
marine extant
species |
 | Turtle |
Green turtle,
Hawksbill turtle,
Leatherback turtle |  | Frigatebird |
Great Frigatebird,
Lesser Frigatebird |  | Albatross |
Wandering Albatross |  | Shark |
Whale shark (１２m),
Shortfin mako |  | Marlin |
Indo-Pacific sailfish,
Black Marlin,
Striped Marlin |  | Coral |
Table coral',
Brain corals' |
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Fiji
small extant
species |
| Bat (EN) |
Pacific Sheath-Tailed Bat,
Fijian Mastiff Bat |  | Frog (EN) |
(Platymantis vitiana) |
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