Wallace's line

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A hypothetical line demarcating the distribution of Asian and Australian fauna, passing between the islands of Bali and Lombok to the south and Borneo and Sulawesi to the north, used especially in biogeographic studies of evolution.

[After Alfred Russel Wallace.]

Wallace's line

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the hypothetical boundary between the Oriental and Australasian zoogeographical regions, which runs between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok, through the Macassar Strait, and SE of the Philippines

[named after Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), British naturalist]

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No references found			His realization of the impossibility to understand geographical distribution of animals without taking into consideration all the possible changes which may have taken place in the distribution of land and masses and water converged in the formulation of Wallace's Line, a definite boundary in the Malay Archipelago. History and Philosophy of Science by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences From Wallace's Line to the Front Lines of the Explosive Struggle for the World's Richest Underwater Treasures Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia Here on the eastern shore of Bali, as I look past the thin, white line of surf breaking over an offshore reef to the sparkling seas of the Lombok Strait, I'm not just looking toward another Indonesian island, I'm also looking past an invisible line to the edge of another world. Indonesia's Coral Reefs on the Line by Ryan, John C. / World Watch			Wall St. Wall Street Wall Streetese wall tent wall unit wall up Wall wasp wall-covering Wall-eye wall-eyed wall-mounted wall-paperer Wall-plat Wall-sided wall-to-wall wall-to-wall carpeting walla Walla Walla Wallaba wallaby Wallace Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace Carothers Wallace Hume Carothers Wallace Stevens Wallace's line Wallachia Wallachian Wallack wallah wallaroo Wallasey Wallbird wallboard wallcovering walled walled plain Wallenberg Wallenstein Waller Wallerian degeneration wallet Walleteer walleye walleyed walleyed pike walleyed pollack wallflower Wallhick wallies Walling			Wallace H. Carothers Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Wallace Harrison Wallace High School Wallace House (Independence) Wallace House (Missouri) Wallace House State Historic Site Wallace Hume Carothers Wallace Hume Carothers Wallace Investment Holdings Wallace Junior High Wallace Kirkman Harrison Wallace Line Wallace Line Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd, LLC Wallace Meschishnick Clackson Zawada Wallace Price Creative Group Wallace Roberts & Todd Wallace Second-Order Eikonal Approximation Wallace State Park Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens Wallace Stone Quarry Wallace Theater Corporation Wallace Trail Preservation Association Wallace v. Jaffree Wallace Welch & Willingham Inc. Wallace's line Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar Wallace, A. R. Wallace, A. R. Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel, F.R.S., Ll.D., Etc. Wallace, Alfred Russel, F.R.S., Ll.D., Etc. Wallace, De Witt Wallace, DeWitt Wallace, Edgar Wallace, Edgar Wallace, George Wallace, George C Wallace, George Corley Wallace, George Corley Wallace, Henry Wallace, Henry A Wallace, Henry A. Wallace, Henry Agard Wallace, Henry Cantwell Wallace, Joe Wallace, John Hankins Wallace, John William Wallace, Lew Wallace, Lewis Wallace, Lila Acheson Wallace, Mike

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