Four or five subspecies are recognized\u2014one in the Pacific, one in the Atlantic, and two or three in the Indian Ocean:<\/p>

Ascensionis<\/em> breeds in the equatorial Atlantic on Fernando de Noronha (Brazil), Acension, and islands in the Gulf of Guinea (S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, Pr\u00edncipe, and Annob\u00f3n).<\/p>

Europae<\/em> breeds on Europa Island in the southern Mozambique Channel.<\/p>

Lepturus<\/em> breeds on most tropical island groups of the Indian Ocean: the Comoros, Seychelles, Mauritius, R\u00e9union, Maldives, Chagos, Andaman, and Cocos (Keeling).<\/p>

Fulvus<\/em> breeds on Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean\u2014but its status as a subspecies is dubious.\u00a0 It seems to be a localized population of lepturus<\/em> that has disproportionate representation of \u201cgolden\u201d morphs, which also occur to some extent in all other White-tailed subspecies.<\/p>

Dorotheae<\/em> breeds on many tropical island groups of the Pacific from the Ogasawara Islands and Palau east throughout Micronesia to Hawaii and south through the Solomon Islands to New Caledonia and throughout Polynesia to Easter Island.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t