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Figure 5.20
Biogeographic analysis of Malesia and surrounding areas by Brown et al.
(2006). (a) Areas of endemism; (b) general area cladogram. A, Bismarck Archipelago and
Solomon islands; B, Papuan Peninsula; C, northeastern Australia; D, New Guinea craton;
E, central New Guinea; F, northern New Guinea; G, Vogelkop Peninsula; H, South Moluc-
cas; I, Lesser Sunda Islands; J, north and west Sulawesi; K, southern Philippines; L, north-
ern Philippines; M, Palawan; N, Borneo; O, Java and Bali; P, Sumatra; Q, Malay Peninsula;
R, Taiwan; S, north Vietnam and south China; T, Himalayas.
Paralogy-free subtree analysis of the taxon-area cladogram produced thirteen
paralogy-free subtrees. Components from these subtrees were coded as charac-
ters in a data matrix, which produced an overflow of trees (7,108+) of twenty-three
steps, a consistency index of 1.0, and a retention index of 1.0. The general area
cladogram(
fig. 5.20b
)
hadabasalpolytomy,includingtheHimalayas(T)andthree
clades: one related Taiwan (R) to north Vietnam and south China; another related
the eastern areas, including the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands
(A), northeastern Australia (C), and New Guinea areas (B, D, E, F, and G); and the
other related the western and middle Malesian areas of southern Moluccas, Less-
er Sunda Islands, north and west Sulawesi, southern and northern Philippines,
Palawan, Borneo, Java and Bali, Sumatra, and the Malay Peninsula (H to Q).
