Fig. 1 Distribution of highest concentration of species richness
of coral reef fishes in the Philippines. The darkest area in the
central Philippines represents the area with the greatest 1% of
species richness and is a unique global maxima. Successively
lighter shades of grey represent successive 1% increments of
decreasing concentration of species richness and this incremental
decrease continues both east and west of the central
Philippines (not shown). Analyses is based on Allen’ s (2008)
distributions using standardized base maps at the appropriate
scale of 10 km by 10 km pixel size