Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific Online Information System (SFTEP)

The Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) encompasses the continental shoreline that extends south of Magdalena Bay (~ 25 degrees N) along the outer coast of southern Baja California, throughout the Gulf of California, and down the continental coastline to about Cabo Blanco (4 degrees S) in northern Peru.

This region also includes five offshore islands and groups of islands - the Revillagigedos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo and the Galapagos. Politically the region spans all or part of the Pacific coasts of 10 Central and South American countries: (most of) Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, a small part of Honduras in the upper reaches of the Gulf of Fonseca, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and northern Peru, as well as a tiny piece of French Polynesia in the form of Clipperton Island.