Wallacean

English

Wallacean (comparative more Wallacean, superlative most Wallacean)

Of or relating to Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

Wallacean (comparative more Wallacean, superlative most Wallacean)

Of or relating to Wallacea (a group of Indonesian islands).
- 2011, Dmitry Telnov, Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea:
  While the Philippines have a large Sundaland biotic component, there is a significant Wallacean, New Guinea and Australian element in the biota. The evolutuonary relationships of some of the iconic taxa suggest a Wallacean and Gondwanan origin.
- 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2, column 2:
  This species is essentially Wallacean, but it is known from two areas in Sundaic Indonesia as we define it.

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