French Polynesia
By: Marshall Fisher
Landforms, Natural Resources, Religion, Climate, Current Issues, and Land- Use
Top 9 Languages Spoken in French Polynesia
Plants and Animals
Common Fig
Ficus carica is a species of flowering plant in the genus Ficus, from the family Moraceae, known as the common fig, or just the fig. It is the source of the fruit also called the fig, and as such is an important crop in those areas where it is grown commercially
Yellow-Belly Damsel
Pomacentrus auriventris is a Damselfish from the Western Central Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 5.5cm in length.
Coconut Tree
As one element of the Polynesian dream, the coconut tree was actually brought by the first immigrants who diffused it in all the South Pacific islands. He quickly became the odd-job tree since everything in it can be used, in raw state or worked.
Cardinal Fish
This species grows up to 8 cm (3 in) total length. It has a distinctive contrasting pattern of black and light bars with white spots. This species is easily differentiated from all other cardinalfish by its tasseled first dorsal fin, elongate anal and second dorsal fin rays, deeply forked caudal fin, and color pattern consisting of three black bars across the head and body and prominent black anterior edges on the anal and second dorsal fin. Males can be differentiated from females by a conspicuous enlarged oral cavity, which is apparent only when they are brooding.
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