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biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia which encompasses the areas of the Asiancontinental shelf that was exposed during the lastice age
Etymologies
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Examples
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The differences far exceed those that have been documented for subspecies within other pantherine felids, and are congruent with a separate species, to which the name Sundaland clouded leopard, Neofelis diardi, has been given, although the name Diard's cat has priority based on historical precedence.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Xeko Masters, get ready for the hotspot of "Sundaland" which includes part of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Borneo. "
Green Options 2009
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However, the new findings show that the Sunda colugo, found only in Indochina and Sundaland, including the large islands of Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, actually represents at least three separate species.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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See Biological diversity in Sundaland and Biological diversity in Wallacea as well as the following ecoregions:
Indonesia 2009
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Only the Madagascar and Sundaland hotspots have a higher level of mammal endemism.
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Nearly 200 species of fish have been discovered in the rivers, lakes and swamps of Sundaland in just the last decade.
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The flora is a combination of relict Gondwanan species, autochthonous Australian plants that arose after the breakup of Gondwana and drying of Australia, Indo-Malay plants introduced 15 million years ago when Australia collided with the Sundaland plate, and New Guinean species which made their way across the Torres Strait.
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In all, around 180,000 km2 of land is protected throughout Sundaland, representing 12 percent of the hotspots total land area.
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The wetter lowland and hill forests have the highest number of tree species, but differ from the commercially valuable forests of Sundaland in having only a handful of dipterocarp species.
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Wallacea is divided from Sundaland, the other hotspot found in Indonesia, by Wallace's Line, which separates the Indo-Malayan and Australasian biogeographic realms.
bilby commented on the word Sundaland
The bioregion lying to the west of the Wallace Line.
March 27, 2010