Furneaux bioregion
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Furneaux Tasmania | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 40°10′S 148°05′E / 40.167°S 148.083°E | ||||||||||||||
Area | 538 km2 (207.7 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
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Furneaux is an interim Australian bioregion that includes the Furneaux Group of more than one hundred islands off the northeast coast of Tasmania, as well as the northeast corner of Tasmania and Wilson's Promontory on the Australian mainland. It covers an area of 537,543 hectares (1,328,300 acres).[1][2]
Furneaux Island, located at the eastern entrance to Bass Strait, is home to a range of native plants and animals, including the Furneaux burrowing crayfish, a threatened species of crayfish in the family Parastacidae, endemic to Australia.[3]
See also
References
- ^ "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA7) regions and codes". Department of the Environment and Energy. Australian Government. 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, Version 7" (PDF). Department of the Environment and Energy. Australian Government. 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Engaeus martigener: Doran, N. And Horwitz, P". 2010. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T7737A12845688.en.
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Further reading
- Thackway, R.; Cresswell, I. D. (1995). An interim biogeographic regionalisation for Australia : a framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program, Version 4.0. Canberra: Australian Nature Conservation Agency, Reserve Systems Unit. ISBN 978-0-642-21371-6.
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