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Wallace's Line


Wal·lace's Line

W0018400 (wŏl′ĭ-sĭz) or Wal·lace Line (wŏl′ĭs)n. A hypothetical line separating the Oriental and Australasian biogeographic regions and passing between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in the north and Bali and Lombok in the south.
[After Alfred Russell Wallace.]

Wallace's line

n (Biology) the hypothetical boundary between the Oriental and Australasian zoogeographical regions, which runs between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok, through the Macassar Strait, and SE of the Philippines [C20: named after Alfred Russel Wallace]

Wallace's line


Wallace's line,

imaginary line postulated by A. R. WallaceWallace, Alfred Russel,
1823–1913, English naturalist. From his study of comparative biology in Brazil and in the East Indies, he evolved a concept of evolution similar to that of Charles Darwin.
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 as the dividing line between Asian and Australian fauna in the Malay Archipelago. It passes between Bali and Lombok islands and between Borneo and Sulawesi, then continues S of the Philippines and N of the Hawaiian Islands.

Wallace's Line


Wallace's Line

the division between the BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS of Australia and the Orient. The line lies between Lombok and Bali, the Celebes and Borneo, and east of the Philippines.
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