Sclater, PL (English spelling) SclaterPL

Japanese: Sclater,P.L.(英語表記)SclaterPL
Sclater, PL (English spelling) SclaterPL

…Today, Europe, Asia, and Africa are called the Old World, North and South America the New World, Eurasia the Palearctic Region, North America the Nearctic Region, and the two together the Holarctic Region. Africa is called the Ethiopian Region, India and South Asia the Oriental Region, South America the Neotropical Region, and Australia including the Pacific Islands the Australian Region. The first proposal for a zoogeographical division was made by PL Sclater in his Birds (1858) and Mammals (1894), followed by AR Wallace (1876) and TH Huxley (1868), all of which were based on the classification and geography of birds and animals (Figure 1). Taking into account the ecological divisions made by F. Dahl and others, a method was also proposed that recognized the Arctic and Antarctic Circles (1925). …

From the Legend of Mu

…The continent Mu, which is said to have existed in the Indian or Pacific Oceans in ancient times, was originally known as Lemuria. It was proposed by Philip Lutley Sclater (1829-1913), a British zoologist and opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution. In 1874, in order to explain the strange distribution of lemurs and other creatures, he hypothesized that Madagascar, southern India, and Malaysia were originally a single continent that had sunk underwater 50 million years ago, and named this continent Lemuria after the lemur. …

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Japanese:

…現在では,ヨーロッパ,アジアとアフリカを含めて旧世界,南北アメリカは新世界と呼び,ユーラシア大陸は旧北区,北アメリカは新北区,両者を合わせて全北区とし,アフリカはエチオピア区,インド,南アジアは東洋区,南アメリカは新熱帯区,オーストラリアは太平洋諸島を含めてオーストラリア区と呼ぶのが一般的である。動物地理区分の提唱はスクレーターP.L.Sclaterの鳥類(1858),哺乳類(1894)についてのものが最初で,A.R.ウォーレス(1876),T.H.ハクスリー(1868)などが続いたが,いずれも鳥獣の分類地理学的な検討に基づくものであった(図1)。ダールF.Dahlなどによる生態的環境区分を考慮し,北極圏,南極圏などを認める方式も提唱された(1925)。…

【ムー伝説】より

…太古にインド洋または太平洋海域に存在したとされる大陸ムーMuは,当初レムリアLemuriaの名で世に広まった。提唱者はイギリスの動物学者でダーウィン進化論の反対者スクレーターPhilip Lutley Sclater(1829‐1913)である。彼は1874年に,レムール(キツネザル)などの奇妙な分布を説明する必要から,マダガスカルと南インド,ならびにマレーシアは元来一つの大陸で5000万年前に水没したという仮説を立て,これをレムールにちなんでレムリア大陸と命名した。…

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