TASMANIA Cracraft 1991

Available Names:

Tasmania Cracraft 1991: 214.

Additional synonomies:

Tasmania. — Crisp et al. 1995: 460.

Area Taxonomy:

TERRESTRIAL PHYTOGEOGRAPHICAL AREAS

Sub-Realm:

AUSTRALIA (de Candolle 1820)

Region:

EURONOTIAN Tate 1889

Sub-Region:

TASMANIA Cracraft 1991

Diagnosis:

The area including Tasmania and the Bass Strait Islands.

Type-locality:

Cradle Mountain Tasmania, Australia, 41°41’6.48”S 145°57’9.55”E

González-Orozco, Ebach et al. (2014) identified Tasmania as linked to the southern coast of Victoria
in their analysis. However, Crisp et al. (1995) have made a case for keeping Tasmania as a separate sub-region based
on cladistic biogeographical analysis, and while Burbidge (1960) considered the Tasmanian flora “not highly endemic
at the generic level” (Burbidge 1960: 76), that author still separated it as an area (i.e., Tasmanian focal area). Given
this, and until further results to the contrary we have retained Tasmania as a separate sub-region in the present area
taxonomy.

Map:

Reference:

Patterns of diversification within continental biotas: hierarchical congruence among the areas of endemism of Australian vertebrates

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