Australasian realm

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The Australasian realm is a major biogeographic region encompassing Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and surrounding islands, characterized by highly distinctive and often endemic flora and fauna.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf biogeographic realm
biogeographic region
biogeographicHistory long isolation from other landmasses
borderedBy Antarctica
surface form: Antarctic realm

Indomalayan realm
Oceania
surface form: Oceanian realm
characterizedBy distinctive fauna
distinctive flora
high endemism
contains Australian faunal region
Australian floristic region
New Zealand bioregion
continent Australia
derivedFrom Gondwana
hasBiome Mediterranean-type shrublands
deserts
grasslands
temperate forests
tropical rainforests
hasClimate arid interior regions
temperate southern regions
tropical northern regions
hasEndemicTaxa many bird families
many marsupial genera
many reptile species
includes Australia
Bismarck Archipelago
Lesser Sunda Islands
Maluku Islands
surface form: Moluccas

New Guinea
New Zealand
Solomon Islands
Tasmania
many Pacific islands
knownFor highly endemic plant families
large flightless birds
marsupial diversity
monotreme mammals
unique conifer lineages
locatedIn Southern Hemisphere
recognizedBy WWF ecoregion classification
biogeographers worldwide
separatedFrom Indomalayan realm by Wallace Line
usedIn biogeography
conservation planning
global biodiversity assessments

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Phalangeriformes nativeTo Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Phalangeridae nativeTo Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Phalangeridae distributionRegion Australasian realm
Thylogale geographicDistribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
British Empire legal system appliedInTerritory Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Peramelemorphia distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Peramelemorphia geologicalOrigin Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
Papunesia locatedIn Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Dasyuromorphia distributionRegion Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Messner definition of Oceania recognizesRegion Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Xenicus gilviventris biogeographicRealm Australasian realm
South Eastern Highlands biogeographicRealm Australasian realm
cuckooshrikes nativeToRegion Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Oriolidae distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Dicruridae distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Monarchidae distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Petroicidae distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Pachycephalidae distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Pachycephalidae region Australasian realm
Nectariniidae geographicDistribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Corcoracidae biogeographicRealm Australasian realm
Sylvioidea distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Certhioidea distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Estrildidae nativeTo Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Taeniopygia belongsToBiogeographicRealm Australasian realm
Maluridae distributionRegion Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Meliphagoidea distributionRegion Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Campephagidae distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Acanthizidae nativeTo Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Acanthizidae geographicDistribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
Australian Poultry Standards region Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia
Macrocephalon nativeToBiogeographicRealm Australasian realm
Nesospiza belongsToBiogeographicRealm Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Oceanian biogeographic region
Wallacea faunalRealm Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian realm (partly)
Malesia overlapsWith Australasian realm
Casuarius geographicDistribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
Casuariidae distributionRegion Australasian realm
Southwest Australia Mediterranean-climate shrublands partOf Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasia biogeographic realm
Nothomyrmecia belongsToBiogeographicRealm Australasian realm
Tully Gorge National Park biogeographicRealm Australasian realm
Oriental region borderedBy Australasian realm
Melophorus geographicDistribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
Camponotus notableRegion Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
Cerapachys geographicDistribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
Dolichoderus distribution Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region
Technomyrmex geographicRange Australasian realm
this entity surface form: Australasian region