Wallace Line
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wallace-line-173-14642776
title:
Wallace Line
text:
The Wallace line or Wallace's line is a faunal boundary line drawn in 1859 by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and named by the English biologist T.H. Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia also called the Malay Archipelago and the Indo-Australian Archipelago. To the west of the line are found organisms related to Asiatic species; to the east, a mixture of species of Asian and Australian origins is prese
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description:
Line separating Asian and Australian fauna
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line
date created:
2003-05-02T19:42:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T16:54:58Z
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