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  2. Southeastern Papuan rain forests - Wikipedia

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    There are 138 species of mammals in the ecoregion, mostly marsupials, bats, and murid rodents.Seven mammal species are endemic: broad-striped dasyure (Paramurexia rothschildi), giant bandicoot (Peroryctes broadbenti), Papuan bandicoot (Microperoryctes papuensis), New Guinea big-eared bat (Pharotis imogene), Chiruromys lamia, Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys levipes), and Van Deusen's rat ...

  3. Fauna of New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    Influential evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr came to New Guinea (Papua New Guinea ), in 1928 to make collections for the American Museum of Natural History and banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild. Mayr collected several thousand bird skins (he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime) and, in the process, also named 38 new orchid species.

  4. Central Range montane rain forests - Wikipedia

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    The Central Range includes the Weyland Mountains at its western end, the Snow Mountains in Indonesia's Papua Province, the Star Mountains which span the Indonesia–Papua New Guinea border, and the Central and Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. [1] [3] The Bird's Neck Isthmus is at the western end of the Central Range.

  5. Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests

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    The Northern New Guinea lowland rain and freshwater swamp forests extend across the northern lowlands of the island of New Guinea, lying between the New Guinea Central Range to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the north. It extends from the eastern shore of Cenderawasih Bay in Indonesia's Papua Province east to Morobe Province of Papua New ...

  6. List of mammals of Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Mammals of Papua New Guinea". IUCN. 2001 dead link ‍] "Mammal Species of the World". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 2005. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007 "Animal Diversity Web". University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 1995–2006

  7. Category:Flora of Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    The Flora of Papua New Guinea, in the WGSRPD, is the flora of the eastern portion of island of New Guinea, i.e. that part of the island that is within the nation state Papua Niugini (Papua New Guinea).

  8. Ecoregions of New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    New Guinea is in the Australasian realm, which also includes the islands of Wallacea to the west, the Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu to the east, and Australia and New Zealand. [1] Sea levels were lower during the Ice Ages, which exposed the shallow continental shelf and connected New Guinea to Australia into a single land mass.

  9. Southern New Guinea lowland rain forests - Wikipedia

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    The ecoregion includes the foothills and lowlands south of New Guinea's Central Range. Above 1000 meters elevation, the lowland forests transition to the Central Range montane rain forests . The Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests ecoregion covers extensive areas of the Fly River lowlands to the south, and the lower reaches of some ...