Notogaean.

1868 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 315 If the great frontier line is latitudinal..and divides a north world from a south world, we must speak of Arctogæa and Notogæa rather than of Neogæa and Palæogæa as the primary distributional areæ.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 314 It seems almost impossible for the ornithologist reasonably to refuse recognition..of the six Geographical Regions.., brigading, if he so please, the first three as Notogæa, and the last three as Arctogæa.

1950 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 20 257/1 Neogaea is the South American region, Notogaea Australia, New Zealand, and neighbouring islands.

1989 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 1021/1 The Australian region constitutes the realm Notogaea and includes Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea on one continental shelf, and the outlying islands of New Caledonia and New Zealand, and all of the Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian islands.

1890 Cent. Dict. Notogæal.

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 192/1 The existence of but very few [finches] in the Notogæan hemisphere can as yet be regarded as certain.

1916 Science 28 Jan. 124/1 North America had quite a different fate; its connection with the south was a mere episode which led to the transitory reception of a considerable number of Notogæan forms and the permanent establishment of very few.

1989 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 1021/1 (heading) The Notogaean realm: Australian region.

1896 R. Lydekker Geogr. Hist. Mammals 28 The Notogæic realm may..be taken as the first of the three primary zoological divisions of the globe.

1938 J. R. Carpenter Ecol. Gloss. IX. App. (in figure) Notogaeic realm.