Biology:Papuasia

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Short description: Biogeographic region


Papuasia as defined by the WGSRPD

Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD).[1] It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia.

It comprises the following geographic and political entities:

  • Aru Islands (Indonesia; treated as part of Western New Guinea in the Scheme)
  • New Guinea
    • Papua New Guinea
    • Western New Guinea (Indonesia)
  • Solomon Islands (archipelago)
    • Bougainville
    • Solomon Islands (excluding the Santa Cruz Islands)[2]

References

  1. ↑ Brummitt, R.K. (2001). World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2. International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG). http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/TDWG_geo2.pdf. Retrieved 2006-11-27. 
  2. ↑ "The Papuasian region". User Documentation for ANHSIR. Australian National Herbarium. http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/anhsir/anhsir-manual/papuasia.html. 



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