Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
of this region, it has been placed in earlier paleogeographic recon-
structions as part of Laurasia.
2.4. Australian Tropical region: northwestern Australia.
3. Austral realm: southern temperate areas in South America, South Africa,
Australasia, and Antarctica that correspond to the western portion of the
paleocontinent of Gondwana (Crisci et al. 1993; Moreira-Muñoz 2007).
3.1. Andean region: southern South America below 30° south latitude, ex-
tending through the Andean highlands north of this latitude, to the
Puna and North Andean Paramo.
3.2. Antarctic region: Antarctica.
3.3. Cape or Afrotemperate region: South Africa.
3.4. Neoguinean region: New Guinea plus New Caledonia.
3.5. Australian Temperate region: southeastern Australia.
3.6. Neozealandic region: New Zealand.
