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Wallacea
Wallacea meaning
A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
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This ecoregion is part of the Wallacea area with a mixture of plants and animals of Asian and Australasian origin; it lies in the western part of Wallacea, in which Asian species predominate.
Biogeographical Biogeographically, Oceania is used as a synonym for either the Australasian ecozone ( Wallacea and Australasia ) or the Pacific ecozone (Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia apart either from New Zealand or from mainland New Guinea ).
Sumba is within the Wallacea ecozone, having a mixture of plants and animals of Asian and Australasian origin.
The islands between Java/Borneo and Papua form a mixed zone, where both types occur, known as Wallacea.