Pantropical

In biology, pantropical ("across the tropics") means that the organism occurs in the tropical regions of all of the major continents, i.e. in Africa, in Asia and in the Americas.

Neotropical refers to occurrence in the tropical regions of the New World, i.e. the Americas.

Palaeotropical refers to geographical occurrence. For a distribution to be palaeotropical a taxon must occur in tropical regions on both continents in the Old World, i.e. in Africa and Asia.

See also

neotropical
palaeotropical

Translation

The word "Pantropical" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Spanish.

Translation in German: pantropisch.