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Neotropical realm, the Glossary

️Thu Aug 15 2013

The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.^[1]

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Biogeographic realms
Ecoregions of Central America
Ecoregions of North America
Ecoregions of South America
Ecoregions of the Caribbean
Natural history of Central America
Natural history of North America
Natural history of South America
Natural history of the Caribbean
Phytogeography
Tropical flora

Aetalionidae

Aetalionidae are a family of treehoppers in the superfamily Membracoidea.

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Agrias

Agrias is a genus of Neotropical charaxine nymphalid butterflies found in South and Central America.

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Amaranthus caudatus

Amaranthus caudatus (also known as Amaranthus edulis and Amaranthus mantegazzianus) is a species of annual flowering plant.

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The Amazon biome (Bioma Amazônia) contains the Amazon rainforest, an area of tropical rainforest, and other ecoregions that cover most of the Amazon basin and some adjacent areas to the north and east. Neotropical realm and Amazon biome are ecoregions of South America.

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Amazon rainforest

The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. Neotropical realm and Amazon rainforest are ecoregions of South America.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Anacardioideae

Anacardioideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Anacardiaceae.

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Anaeini

Anaeini is a tribe of Neotropical brush-footed butterflies.

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Antarctic flora

Antarctic flora are a distinct community of vascular plants which evolved millions of years ago on the supercontinent of Gondwana. Neotropical realm and Antarctic flora are phytogeography.

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Antarctic Floristic Kingdom

The Antarctic Floristic Kingdom, also the Holantarctic Kingdom, is a floristic kingdomTakhtajan, A. (1986).

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Antbird

The antbirds are a large passerine bird family, Thamnophilidae, found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America, from Mexico to Argentina.

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Anteater

Anteaters are the four extant mammal species in the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue"), commonly known for eating ants and termites.

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Araucaria

Araucaria (original pronunciation) is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae.

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Armadillo

Armadillos (little armored ones) are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata.

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Atlantic Forest

The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera. Neotropical realm and Atlantic Forest are ecoregions of South America.

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Baja California peninsula

The Baja California peninsula (lit) is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Biblidinae

Biblidinae is a subfamily of nymphalid butterflies that includes the tropical brushfoots.

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Biodiversity

Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Neotropical realm and Biodiversity are biogeography.

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Biogeographic realm

A biogeographic realm is the broadest biogeographic division of Earth's land surface, based on distributional patterns of terrestrial organisms. Neotropical realm and biogeographic realm are biogeographic realms and biogeography.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Bioregion

A bioregion is a geographical area, on land or at sea, defined not by administrative boundaries but by distinct communities of characteristic plant and animal species, ecological systems, and topographic features. Neotropical realm and bioregion are biogeographic realms and biogeography.

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Bixaceae

The Bixaceae are a family of dicotyledonous plants commonly called the achiote family.

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Brassolini

Brassolini is a tribe usually placed in the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Morphinae, which is often included in the Satyrinae as a tribe Morphini.

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Brazilian Highlands

The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau (Planalto Brasileiro) is an extensive geographical region covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all some 4,500,000 km2 (1,930,511 sq mi) or approximately half of the country's land area.

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Bromeliaceae

The Bromeliaceae (the bromeliads) are a family of monocot flowering plants of about 80 genera and 3700 known species, native mainly to the tropical Americas, with several species found in the American subtropics and one in tropical west Africa, Pitcairnia feliciana.

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Brunellia

Brunellia is a genus of trees.

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Caatinga

Caatinga is a type of semi-arid tropical vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in interior northeastern Brazil.

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Caiman

A caiman (also cayman as a variant spelling from Taíno kaiman) is an alligatorid belonging to the subfamily Caimaninae, one of two primary lineages within the Alligatoridae family, the other being alligators.

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Calyceraceae

Calyceraceae is a plant family in the order Asterales.

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Camelidae

Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda.

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Canna (plant)

Canna or canna lily is the only genus of flowering plants in the family Cannaceae, consisting of 10 species.

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Canopus (insect)

Canopus is a genus of Neotropical bugs with about six species that form the family Canopidae.

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Capybara

The capybara or greater capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a giant cavy rodent native to South America.

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Caryocaraceae

Caryocaraceae (syn. Rhizobolaceae DC.) is a small family of flowering plants consisting of two genera with 26 species.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

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Caviomorpha

Caviomorpha is the rodent parvorder that unites all New World hystricognaths.

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Central America

Central America is a subregion of North America.

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Central Florida

Central Florida is a region of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Cerrado

The Cerrado is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná and the Federal District. Neotropical realm and Cerrado are ecoregions of South America.

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Characidae

Characidae, the characids or characins, is a family of freshwater subtropical and tropical fish belonging to the order Characiformes.

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Charaxinae

The Charaxinae, the leafwings, are a nymphalid subfamily of butterflies that includes about 400 species, inhabiting mainly the tropics, although some species extend into temperate regions in North America, Europe, China, and southern Australia.

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Chinchilla

Chinchillas are either of two species (Chinchilla chinchilla and Chinchilla lanigera) of crepuscular rodents of the parvorder Caviomorpha, and are native to the Andes mountains in South America.

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Chocolate

Chocolate or cocoa is a food made from roasted and ground cocoa seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods.

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Cichlinae

The Cichlinae are a subfamily of fishes in the cichlid family, native to Central and South America.

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Cloud forest

A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, formally described in the International Cloud Atlas (2017) as silvagenitus.

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Cochlospermaceae

The Cochlospermaceae were a family of two genera and 20-25 species of trees and shrubs, first described by Jules Émile Planchon in 1847.

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Cocoa solids

Dry cocoa solids are the components of cocoa beans remaining after cocoa butter, the fatty component of the bean, is extracted from chocolate liquor, roasted cocoa beans that have been ground into a liquid state.

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Columelliaceae

Columelliaceae is a family of trees and shrubs native to the Andes of South America.

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Coral snake

Coral snakes are a large group of elapid snakes that can be divided into two distinct groups, the Old World coral snakes and New World coral snakes.

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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.

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Curassow

Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds.

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Cyatheaceae

The Cyatheaceae are a family of ferns, the scaly tree ferns, one of eight families in the order Cyatheales in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).

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Cyclanthaceae

Cyclanthaceae is a family of flowering plants.

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Cyclura

Cyclura is a genus of lizards in the family Iguanidae.

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Dactyloidae

Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay.

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Deserts and xeric shrublands

Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Desfontainia

Desfontainia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Columelliaceae, though it was placed formerly in Loganiaceae, Potaliaceae (later subsumed in Gentianaceae), or a family of its own, Desfontainiaceae.

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Desventuradas Islands

The Desventuradas Islands (Islas Desventuradas,, "Unfortunate Islands" or Islas de los Desventurados, "Islands of the Unfortunate Ones") is a group of four small oceanic islands located off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean.

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Dialypetalanthus

Dialypetalanthus is a genus of trees in the family Rubiaceae.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.

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Euglossini

The tribe Euglossini, in the subfamily Apinae, commonly known as orchid bees or euglossine bees, are the only group of corbiculate bees whose non-parasitic members do not all possess eusocial behavior.

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Eumaeini

The Eumaeini are a tribe of gossamer-winged butterflies (family Lycaenidae).

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European colonization of the Americas

During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Firetips

Firetips or firetail skippers are skipper butterflies in the subfamily Pyrrhopyginae (family Hesperiidae).

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fitzroya

Fitzroya is a monotypic genus in the cypress family.

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Flora

Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Gondwana

Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent. Neotropical realm and Gondwana are biogeography.

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Gonyleptidae

Gonyleptidae is a neotropical family of harvestmen (order Opiliones) with more than 800 species, the largest in the suborder Laniatores and the second largest of the Opiliones as a whole.

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Gossypium barbadense

Gossypium barbadense is one of several species of cotton.

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Goupia

Goupia is a neotropical genus of flowering plants and the sole genus included in the family Goupiaceae.

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Gran Chaco

The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid lowland tropical dry broadleaf forest natural region of the Río de la Plata basin, divided among eastern Bolivia, western Paraguay, northern Argentina, and a portion of the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, where it is connected with the Pantanal region. Neotropical realm and Gran Chaco are ecoregions of South America.

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Great American Interchange

The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents. Neotropical realm and Great American Interchange are biogeography.

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Guava

Guava is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions.

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Guinea pig

The guinea pig or domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also known as the cavy or domestic cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the genus Cavia in the family Caviidae.

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Gymnotiformes

The Gymnotiformes are an order of teleost bony fishes commonly known as Neotropical knifefish or South American knifefish.

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Heliconia

Heliconia is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Heliconiaceae.

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Heliconiini

Heliconiini is a tribe of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae, also known as the passion-vine butterflies.

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Hummingbird

Hummingbirds are birds native to the Americas and comprise the biological family Trochilidae.

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Hutia

Hutias (known in Spanish as jutía) are moderately large cavy-like rodents of the subfamily Capromyinae that inhabit the Caribbean islands.

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Indigenous languages of the Americas

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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Isthmus of Panama

The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America. Neotropical realm and Isthmus of Panama are natural history of Central America.

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Ithomiini

Ithomiini is a butterfly tribe in the nymphalid subfamily Danainae.

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Juan Fernández Islands

The Juan Fernández Islands (Archipiélago Juan Fernández) are a sparsely inhabited series of islands in the South Pacific Ocean reliant on tourism and fishing.

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Language family

A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.

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Language isolate

A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages.

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Laurel forest

Laurel forest, also called laurisilva or laurissilva, is a type of subtropical forest found in areas with high humidity and relatively stable, mild temperatures.

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Lima bean

A lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), also commonly known as butter bean, sieva bean, double bean or Madagascar bean, is a legume grown for its edible seeds or beans.

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Lissocarpa

Lissocarpa is a genus of flowering plants, described as a genus in 1876.

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List of Caribbean islands

Most of the Caribbean countries are islands are in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes.

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List of terrestrial ecoregions (WWF)

This is a list of terrestrial ecoregions as compiled by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

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Llama

The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era.

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Loricariidae

Loricariidae is the largest family of catfish (order Siluriformes), with over 90 genera and just over 680 species.

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Magellanic subpolar forests

The Magellanic subpolar forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southernmost South America, covering parts of southern Chile and Argentina, and are part of the Neotropical realm. Neotropical realm and Magellanic subpolar forests are ecoregions of South America.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Mantoididae

Mantoididae is a family of praying mantises which contains Neotropical species of praying mantises from tropical North and South America.

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Marcgraviaceae

The Marcgraviaceae are a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia.

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Megarididae

Megarididae is a family of true bugs in the superfamily Pentatomoidea.

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Melizoderidae

Melizoderidae is a family of treehoppers restricted to South America with only two genera, Melizoderes and Llanquihuea.

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Morphini

Morphini is a tribe of nymphalid butterflies in the subfamily Morphinae.

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Morpho (genus)

The morpho butterflies comprise many species of Neotropical butterfly under the genus Morpho.

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Natural resource

Natural resources are resources that are drawn from nature and used with few modifications.

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Nature conservation

Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity.

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Nearctic realm

The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. Neotropical realm and Nearctic realm are biogeographic realms.

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Neotropical fish

The freshwater fish of tropical South and Central America, represent one of the most diverse and extreme aquatic ecosystems on Earth, with more than 5,600 species, representing about 10% all living vertebrate species.

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New World monkey

New World monkeys are the five families of primates that are found in the tropical regions of Mexico, Central and South America: Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Pitheciidae, and Atelidae.

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Nolana

Nolana (Peruvian bell flower) is a genus of hard annual or perennial plants in the nightshade family.

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Nothofagus

Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.

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Opossum

Opossums are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia endemic to the Americas.

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Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and the 35% in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The nevertheless high volume flow (39,000 m3/s at delta) of the Orinoco can be explained by the high precipitation in almost the entire catchment area (ca 2,300 mm/a).

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Ovenbird (family)

Ovenbirds or furnariids are a large family of small suboscine passerine birds found from Mexico and Central to southern South America.

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Owl butterfly

The owl butterflies are species of the genus Caligo and are known for their huge eyespots, which resemble owls' eyes.

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Pantanal

The Pantanal is a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area, and the world's largest flooded grasslands. Neotropical realm and Pantanal are ecoregions of South America.

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Passiflora edulis

Passiflora edulis, commonly known as passion fruit, is a vine species of passion flower native to the region of southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina.

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Pastoralism

Pastoralism is a form of animal husbandry where domesticated animals (known as "livestock") are released onto large vegetated outdoor lands (pastures) for grazing, historically by nomadic people who moved around with their herds.

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Paucituberculata

Paucituberculata is an order of South American marsupials.

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Pelliciera

Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador, as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.

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Peridiscaceae

Peridiscaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales.

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Phloeidae

Phloeidae is a family of true bugs belonging to the order Hemiptera.

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Phyllonoma

Phyllonoma is a genus consisting of 4 species of trees and shrubs.

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Phytochorion

A phytochorion, in phytogeography, is a geographic area with a relatively uniform composition of plant species. Neotropical realm and phytochorion are phytogeography.

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Picrodendraceae

Picrodendraceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 80 species in 24 genera.

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Plocosperma

Plocosperma is the sole genus in the Plocospermataceae,Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards),, Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 2013-08-15 a family of flowering plants.

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Podocarpaceae

Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs.

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Poeciliinae

Poeciliinae is a subfamily of killifish from the family Poeciliidae which contains species from the Americas which are collectively known as the livebearers because many, but not all, of the species within the subfamily are ovoviviparous.

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Poison dart frog

Poison dart frog (also known as dart-poison frog, poison frog or formerly known as poison arrow frog) is the common name of a group of frogs in the family Dendrobatidae which are native to tropical Central and South America.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Pseudostigmatidae

The Pseudostigmatidae are a family of tropical damselflies, known as helicopter damselflies, giant damselflies, or forest giants.

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Quiinaceae

Quiinaceae Engl. is a neotropical family of flowering plants in the Malpighiales, consisting of about 50 species in 4 genera (Froesia, Lacunaria, Quiina, Touroulia).

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Quinoa

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa;, from Quechua kinwa or kinuwa) is a flowering plant in the amaranth family.

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Red-bellied piranha

The red-bellied piranha, also known as the red piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri), is a type of piranha native to South America, found in the Amazon, Paraguay, Paraná and Essequibo basins, as well as coastal rivers of northeastern Brazil.

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Rhea (bird)

Rheas, also known as ñandus or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes.

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Riodininae

Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Seriema

The seriemas are the sole living members of the small bird family Cariamidae, which is also the only surviving lineage of the order Cariamiformes.

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Sloth

Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths.

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Solenodon

Solenodons (from σωλήν, 'channel' or 'pipe' and ὀδούς, 'tooth') are venomous, nocturnal, burrowing, insectivorous mammals belonging to the family Solenodontidae.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South Florida

South Florida, sometimes colloquially shortened to SoFlo, is the southernmost region of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Subsistence economy

A subsistence economy is an economy directed to basic subsistence, the provision of food, clothing, shelter rather than to the market.

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Sweet potato

The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

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Tanager

The tanagers (singular) comprise the bird family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes.

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Temperate climate

In geography, the temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes (approximately 23.5° to 66.5° N/S of Equator), which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.

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Temperate rainforest

Temperate rainforests are rainforests with coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rain.

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The Guianas

The Guianas, also spelled Guyanas or Guayanas, is a region in north-eastern South America.

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Theobroma cacao

Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae.

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Thurniaceae

The Thurniaceae are a family of flowering plants composed of two genera with four species.

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Tinamou

Tinamous are members of the order Tinamiformes, and family Tinamidae, divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.

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Tomato

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.

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Toucan

Toucans are Neotropical birds in the family Ramphastidae.

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Tovaria

Tovaria is a genus of herbs native to Jamaica and South America.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Tropaeolum

Tropaeolum, commonly known as nasturtium (literally "nose-twister" or "nose-tweaker"), is a genus of roughly 80 species of annual and perennial herbaceous flowering plants.

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Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests

The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Neotropical realm and tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests are tropical flora.

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Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands

Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands is a terrestrial biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Neotropical realm and tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests are tropical flora.

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Tropical rainforest

Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south of the Equator. Neotropical realm and Tropical rainforest are tropical flora.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Unclassified language

An unclassified language is a language whose genetic affiliation to other languages has not been established.

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Urbanization

Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.

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Valdivian temperate forests

The Valdivian temperate forests (NT0404) is an ecoregion on the west coast of southern South America, in Chile and Argentina.

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Virginia opossum

The Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), also known as the North American opossum, is the only opossum living north of Mexico, its range extending south into Central America.

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Wood industry

The wood industry or timber industry (sometimes lumber industry -- when referring mainly to sawed boards) is the industry concerned with forestry, logging, timber trade, and the production of primary forest products and wood products (e.g. furniture) and secondary products like wood pulp for the pulp and paper industry.

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World Wide Fund for Nature

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is a Swiss-based international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

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Wren

Wrens are a family of brown passerine birds in the predominantly New World family Troglodytidae.

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Xenarthra

Xenarthra (from Ancient Greek ξένος, xénos, "foreign, alien" + ἄρθρον, árthron, "joint") is a major clade of placental mammals native to the Americas.

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Yucatán Peninsula

The Yucatán Peninsula (also,; Península de Yucatán) is a large peninsula in southeast Mexico and adjacent portions of Belize and Guatemala.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotropical_realm

Also known as Neotropic, Neotropic ecozone, Neotropic ecozones, Neotropic realm, Neotropical, Neotropical Kingdom, Neotropical Region, Neotropical birds, Neotropical ecozone, Neotropical zoogeographical region, Neotropics, Neotropis.

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