AUSTRALIA Forbes 1856

AUSTRALIA Forbes 1856

Available Names: 
Australia Forbes 1856: pl. 31.
Additional synonomies: 
Australia. — Perrier 1878: 108. Australia. — Ortmann 1896: 60.
Area Taxonomy: 
MARINE AREAS
Sub-Realm: 
AUSTRALIA Forbes 1856
Diagnosis: 
The marine shallow water, reef, estuarine and shorelines of continental Australia (including Tasmania).
Type-locality: 
Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia, 33°51.51’S, 151°14.33’E.

Forbes (1856) produced an impressive map in which is described (in the legend) the Australian Province within the Southern Circumcentral Homoiozoic Belt as including the “... seas around the greater part of New Zealand islands ...” (Forbes 1856: pl. 31). What we know of the Australian Province comes directly from the map itself namely a vague region that includes the area north of Shark Bay and Rockhampton. The extent of these areas longitudinally is opaque. However, Perrier (1878) classified Australia, the Indo-Pacific, Indian and Sino-Japanese regions as four regions (along with the Austral and Antarctic) based on starfish distributions. Neither of regions are mapped or described in any greater detail. Similarly, Ortmann (1896) recognised Australia to exist within the Indo-Pacific region, a region he designated to be “very homogeneous”.

Map: 
Reference: 
Map of the distribution of marine life, illustrated chiefly by fishes, molluscs and radiata; showing also the extent and limits of the homoizoic belts

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