Panamicadj.
/paˈnamɪk/, U.S. /pəˈnæmɪk/ Zoology.
Of, relating to, or designating a zoogeographical province covering the American Pacific coastline and adjacent waters from southern Baja California to Ecuador.
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Panamanian1851
Panamic1857
Panaman1906
1857 Rep. 26th Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1856 353 Dr. Gould had formed the opinion..that Mazatlan belonged to the Californian rather than the Panamic type.
1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 16 Many of the Peruvian, and some Panamic species, are found at Paita.
1905 Science 3 Feb. 179/2 In the Panamic Basin to the northeast of the Galapagos we trawled only off Mariato Point.
1960 Systematic Zool. 9 111/2 The Gulf of California..has generally been considered as supporting a Panamic fauna only.
2000 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 13150/2 Although adjacent provinces share species [of bivalves], almost complete taxonomic turnover occurs between the Arctic and Panamic Provinces.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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