“…Many phylogeographic studies within the Gulf have focused on rocky intertidal (Deng & Hazel, ; Hurtado, Frey, Gaube, Pfeiler, & Markow, ; Hurtado et al., ), rocky shore (Riginos, ; Riginos & Nachman, ), sandy substrate (Byrne et al., ; Hurtado et al., ; de Jesús Suárez‐Moo et al., ), reef (Lin, Sánchez‐Ortiz, & Hastings, ) and offshore pelagic (Segura, Rocha‐Olivares, Flores‐Ramírez, & Rojas‐Bracho, ) species. As with estuaries, these other habitats are discontinuously distributed along coastlines (Riginos & Nachman, ).…”