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unusual facts about ecozone



A. prasina

Anaplectoides prasina, the green arches, a moth species found in the Palearctic ecozone

Brachodes staudingeri

Records of Brachodes fallax from the European part of Russia as well as the eastern Palearctic ecozone were identified as a distinct species (Brachodes staudingeri) in 1998.

Ecoregion

WWF (World Wildlife Fund) ecologists currently divide the land surface of the Earth into 8 major ecozones containing 867 smaller terrestrial ecoregions (see list).

Ecozone boundaries generally follow continental boundaries, or major barriers to plant and animal distribution, like the Himalayas and the Sahara.

M. montana

Magnolia montana, a plant species native to the Western Malesia region of the Indomalaya ecozone

Mexican tetra

The type species of its genus, it is native to the Nearctic ecozone, originating in the lower Rio Grande and the Neueces and Pecos Rivers in Texas, as well as the central and eastern parts of Mexico.

Toddy palm

Borassus flabellifer, native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone.


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