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Fauna of South Asia. Animal taxa native to the Southern Asian region located west of Southeast Asia , south of Central Asia , and east of Western Asia . Countries of South Asia include: Afghanistan , Bhutan , Nepal , India , Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , the Maldives , and the British Indian Ocean Territory .
Orange-lipped forest lizard (Calotes aurantolabium) Southern Western Ghats, sp. nov. Green forest lizard (Calotes calotes) South India, Sri Lanka; Emma gray's forest lizard (Calotes emma) northeast India. Large scaled forest lizard (Calotes grandisquamis) Western Ghats; Jerdon's forest lizard (Calotes jerdoni) India (Khasi hills, Meghalaya ...
The tiger is the largest carnivorous mammal in Asia. [1] [2]The animals living in Asia and its surrounding seas and islands are considered the fauna of Asia.Since there is no natural biogeographic boundary in the west between Europe and Asia, the term "fauna of Asia" is somewhat elusive but it is a geographical name given.
Category: Fauna of Asia by region. 6 languages. ... N. Fauna of New Guinea (8 C, 5 P) Fauna of Northeast Asia (6 C, 2 P) R. Fauna of the Russian Far East (7 C, 10 P) S.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) divides Indomalayan realm into three bio-regions, which it defines as "geographic clusters of eco-regions that may span several habitat types, but have strong biogeographic affinities, particularly at taxonomic levels higher than the species level (genus, family)".
The Gangetic whiting is found on the southern Asian coast from Puducherry in the east, northward along the Coromandel Coast and the Ganges delta, Myanmar, Malaysia and occasionally as far south as the Indonesian archipelago. [3] The species is often found on silty or muddy substrates in shallow, open bays and estuaries along the coast.
The western and southern borders of Sundaland are clearly marked by the deeper waters of the Sunda Trench – some of the deepest in the world – and the Indian Ocean. [4] The eastern boundary of Sundaland is the Wallace Line , identified by Alfred Russel Wallace as the eastern boundary of the range of Asia's land mammal fauna, and thus the ...