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ADELAIDE Cracraft 1991
ADELAIDE Cracraft 1991
Available Names:
Adelaide Cracraft 1991: 214.
Area Taxonomy:
TERRESTRIAL ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
Sub-Realm:
AUSTRALIA Prichard 1826
Region:
BASSIAN Hedley (1894)
Sub-Region:
ADELAIDE Cracraft 1991
Diagnosis:
The area occupied by “those species restricted to the mallee vegetation east of the Flinders and Mount Lofty Ranges, south of the Darling River valley, and west of the Great Dividing Range [...] Some species that extend their distributions westward through the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Yorke Peninsula but do not extend around Spencer Gulf to the Eyre Peninsula are also included” (Cracraft 1991: 214–215).
Type-locality:
Gluepot Reserve, South Australia, Australia, 33°45'42.52"S 140° 7'27.51"E.
Cracraft’s Adelaide region abuts Sloane’s Riverina Sub-region, making of one of few sub-regions that share a common boundary, namely south of the Darling River valley. Together with the Riverina, much of Australia’s southeast is covered by a biotic/endemic area.
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