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单词 wallacea
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Wallacean.

/wɒˈleɪsɪə/
Etymology: < Wallace n. + -a (in Latin nouns of the first declension: see -a suffix1), after nouns and place names in -ea.
Zoogeogr.
A zoogeographical area constituting a transition zone between the South-East Asian and Australasian regions.
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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).
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