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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 .
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.
Gondwanian elements were first introduced by India, which detached from Gondwana approximately 90 MYA, carrying its Gondwana-derived flora and fauna northward, which included cichlid fish and the plant families Crypteroniaceae and possibly Dipterocarpaceae. India collided with Asia 30-45 MYA, and exchanged species.
The historical records of European association with Borneo and its fauna were compiled by Lord Medway that was published in 1977 by the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. There are 288 species of terrestrial mammals in Borneo which is dominated by the chiroptera (102 species of bats) and rodentia (61 species of rats and mice), and ...
The islands between Sundaland and New Guinea, called Wallacea, form the southern part of central Malesia. They were never linked to the neighboring continents, and have a flora and fauna that include Indomalayan and Australasian elements. Dipterocarps, which are dominant in Sundaland, are less common in Wallacea, with only 13 species in 4 ...
The flora of Borneo include 15 species of dicot tree, 37 species of non-tree dicot and 49 species of monocot endemic to the rich forest of Brunei Darussalam. [1] Borneo is also home to the world's largest flower, the "corpse flower" ( Rafflesia arnoldii ), which can reach nearly 3 feet (0.91 meters) in diameter and up to 15 pounds (6.8 kg) in ...
The Borneo lowland rain forests is an ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, of the large island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. [1] It supports approximately 15,000 plant species, 380 bird species and several mammal species.