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Notogæa|nəʊtəˈdʒiːə|
[f. Gr. νότος south wind + γαῖα earth, land.]
A large zoological region, comprising the Australian, New Zealand, and Neotropical regions.
1868Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 315 If the great frontier line is latitudinal.., and divides a north world from a south world, we must speak of Arctogæa and Notogæa rather than of Neogæa and Palæogæa as the primary distributional areæ. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 314 Brigading, if he so please, the first three as Notogæa, and the last three as Arctogæa.
Hence Notoˈgæal, Notoˈgæan, Notoˈgæic, adjs.
1879Newton in Encycl. Brit. IX. 192/1 The existence of but very few [finches] in the Notogæan hemisphere can as yet be regarded as certain. 1896Lydekker Geogr. Hist. Mammals 28 The Notogæic realm may..be taken as the first of the three primary zoological divisions of the globe. |