Wallacean
English
Etymology 1
Wallace + -an
Adjective
Wallacean (comparative more Wallacean, superlative most Wallacean)
- Of or relating to Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.
Etymology 2
Wallacea + -an
Adjective
Wallacean (comparative more Wallacean, superlative most Wallacean)
- Of or relating to Wallacea (a group of Indonesian islands).
- 2011, Dmitry Telnov, Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea:
- While the Philippines have a large Sundaland biotic component, there is a significant Wallacean, New Guinea and Australian element in the biota. The evolutuonary relationships of some of the iconic taxa suggest a Wallacean and Gondwanan origin.
- 2015, James Eaton et al., “Trade-driven extinctions and near-extinctions of avian taxa in Sundaic Indonesia”, in Forktail, page 2:
- This species is essentially Wallacean, but it is known from two areas in Sundaic Indonesia as we define it.
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Derived terms
- Wallacean cuckooshrike
- Wallacean drongo
- Wallacean whistler