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There are 3.5 times as many species of marine water striders in the Indo-West Pacific region than in the Atlantic/Caribbean/East Pacific region. The oldest and most species-rich clades originated in the Indo-West Pacific region. Physiological and behavioral rather than morphological specializations are likely to have been key innovations in the transition from limnic to marine habitats. Except for being obligatorily flightless, marine water striders are structurally very similar to their non-marine relatives. Estuaries and mangrove swamps are undoubtedly the ancestral type of habitat, but water striders have diversified further in marine habitats including the surface of the open ocean (sea skaters, Halobates). The fossil records suggest that marine habitats were invaded by members of the families Veliidae and Gerridae earlier than 20-30 and 45 million years before present, respectively. Water striders have colonized the marine environment at least 14 times.
More than 10% of the 1700 species of gerromorphan bugs are marine. No other group of insects have been more successful in colonizing marine habitats than water striders and their allies (Heteroptera, Gerromorpha).
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