单词 | wallacea |
释义 | Wallacean. Zoogeogr. A zoogeographical area constituting a transition zone between the South-East Asian and Australasian regions. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > specific moose yard1800 tsetse district1851 tsetse country1853 fly-country1864 Notogaea1868 floral zone1870 Ornithogaea1874 Nearctic1877 fly-belt1894 fertile crescent1914 alterne1916 Wallacea1928 pollen zone1929 1928 R. E. Dickerson Distrib. Life in Philippines (Philippine Islands Bureau Sci. Monogr. No. 21) 101 Between the two last-described shelves lies Wallacea (new geographic name). 1928 R. E. Dickerson Distrib. Life in Philippines (Philippine Islands Bureau Sci. Monogr. No. 21) 297 Wallacea is outlined sharply by Wallace's Line (as modified) on the west and Weber's Line upon the east. 1944 Q. Rev. Biol. 19 9/2 It seems..that the percentage of Australo-Papuan species in the Philippines (which are included in Wallacea by Dickerson and Merrill) is smaller than the percentage of Oriental species in New Guinea or Australia. 1957 P. J. Darlington Zoogeogr. viii. 517 The archipelago of Wallacea..lies between the continental shelves of Asia and Australia and receives the fringes of the faunas of both continents. 1976 Emu 76 79/1 The two swifts that winter commonly in Australia probably cross Wallacea rapidly. 1978 Nature 18 May 186/1 5,000 years ago..a new culture with the dingo and more diverse stone tools reached Australia, presumably from Wallacea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1928 |
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