| North America | United States * | Dundee (1974), Nekola (2014) |
| Central America | Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Salvador | Thompson (2011) |
| West Indies | Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Lesser Antilles (Barbados, Curaçao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Trinidad) | Deisler and Abbott (1984), Chase and Robinson (2001), Rosenberg and Muratov (2006), Espinosa and Ortea (2009), Robinson et al. (2009), Rutherford (2011), Maceira et al. (2013), Charles (2015), Delannoye et al. (2015), Breure et al. (2016), Herrera-Uria (2016), Hovestadt and van Leeuwen (2017), Hovestadt and Neckheim (2020), Espinosa and Robinson (2021) |
| South America | Brazil, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela | Baker (1927), Marcus and Marcus (1968), van Regteren Altena (1975), Simone (2006), Rumi et al. (2010), Breure et al. (2022 a) |
| Atlantic Ocean | Bermuda | Bieler and Slapcinsky (2000) |
| Europe | Austria *, Czech Republic *, Denmark *, Great Britain *, Ireland *, Italy *, Netherlands *, and Sweden * | Kerney and Cameron (1979), von Proschwitz (1994, 2016), Juricková (2006), Da Sois (2015), Reischütz et al. (2018), Anderson and Rowson (2020), Horsák et al. (2020), this paper |
| Africa | South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe | van Bruggen (1981), Rowson (2007), Herbert (2010) |
| Indian Ocean | Aldabra, Madagascar, Maldives, Mascarene, Pemba, and Seychelles | Probst (2001), Gerlach (2006), Griffiths and Florens (2006), Rowson (2007), Emberton and Griffiths (2009), Rowson et al. (2010), Gittenberger and van Bruggen (2013), Gittenberger et al. (2019) |
| South Asia | India and Sri Lanka | Ranawana (2006), Raheem et al. (2014) |
| South-East Asia | Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, Singapore, and Vietnam | Schileyko (2011), Tan et al. (2015), Foon et al. (2017), Phung et al. (2017), Nurinsiyaha and Hausdorf (2019) |
| East Asia | Dongsha Islands and Japan * | Minato (1988), Wu et al. (2007) |
| Oceania | Australia, New Guinea, and Pacific islands (American Samoa, Belau / Palau, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Galapagos Islands, Guam, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu) | Cowie (2000, 2001), Wiktor (2003), Shea (2007), Brook et al. (2010), Rundell (2010), Stanisic et al. (2010), Brodie and Barker (2012), Kerr and Bauman (2013), Brook (2014), Miquel and Herrera (2014), Cowie et al. (2017) |