Native species
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In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution during history. The term is equivalent to th
Large-leaved lupine (Lupinus polyphyllus): native to western North America but introduced and invasive in several areas worldwide
Bicolored frog (Clinotarsus curtipes) is native to the Western Ghats of India and found nowhere else (endemic)
Endemism
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Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a singular defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place
Native species
…environmental, and/or economic damage, it may be regarded more specifically as an invasive species. A native species in a location is not necessarily also endemic to that location. Endemic species are exclusively found in a particular place. A native species may occur in areas other than the one under consideration…
Both the orange-breasted sunbird (Anthobaphes violacea) and the Kniphofia uvaria plant it feeds on are found exclusively in South Africa.
Montezuma Well in the Verde Valley of Arizona contains at least five endemic species found exclusively in the sinkhole.
Chorus cicada (Amphipsalta zelandica), a species endemic to New Zealand