In summer warm water species can also be found in the Yellow Sea but the diversity was much less than that in winter and short of typical species for Kuroshio water.

As a typical species of generalized conversational implicature, scalar implicature falls well into the realm of Default Logic susceptible to systematic formalization.

Because the latitudinal position of an island also affected its biotic mix, islands in cooler latitudes did not support some tropical species typical of the Pacific islands.