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    Wallacea /wɒˈleɪsiə/ is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian...
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  • Wallacea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ochnaceae. It includes three species of shrubs or trees native to Colombia, Venezuela, and northern...
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    Wallace Line (category Wallacea)
    biologist T.H. Huxley that separates the biogeographical realms of Asia and 'Wallacea', a transitional zone between Asia and Australia also called the Malay...
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    influenced by Australasian species. The Wallace Line, around which lies the Wallacea transitional region, notionally divides the two regions. There is diverse...
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    Malesia (section Wallacea)
    Dipterocarps in 11 genera. The islands between Sundaland and New Guinea, called Wallacea, were never linked to the neighboring continents, and have a flora and...
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    Australasian realms. The islands east of the Wallace line are known as Wallacea, a separate biogeographical region that is considered part of Australasia...
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    Lesser Sunda Islands (category Wallacea)
    Indonesian archipelago. Most of the Lesser Sunda Islands are located within the Wallacea region, except for the Bali province which is west of the Wallace Line...
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    Maluku Islands (category Wallacea)
    Sulawesi, west of New Guinea, and north and east of Timor. Lying within Wallacea (mostly east of the biogeographical Weber Line), the Moluccas have been...
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    area. The region of islands between his line and New Guinea is now termed Wallacea. Indonesia's large and growing population and rapid industrialisation present...
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    The collared kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris) is a medium-sized kingfisher belonging to the subfamily Halcyoninae, the tree kingfishers. It is also known...
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